St Mary's College, Sulthan Bathery / Plant
Trees, to 20 m high, bark brown to brownish-black, rough with vertical fissures; branchlets warty, tomentose. Leaves paripinnate, alternate; stipules lateral, minute, cauducous; rachis 8-13 cm long, slender, glabrous, pulvinate; leaflets 20-34, opposite, sessile, estipellate; lamina 1.5-4 x 0.4-1.3 cm, oblong, base unequal, apex obtuse, margin entire, glabrous, chartaceous; lateral nerves 10-15 pairs, pinnate, slender, obscure, looped at the margin forming intramarginal nerve; intercostae reticulate, obscure. Flowers bisexual, 1 cm across, yellow with reddish-pink dots, in lax terminal racemes; bracts and bracteoles ovate-oblong, coloured, cauducous; pedicels upto 5 mm; calyx tube narrowly turbinate, lined by disc; lobes 4, subequal, oblong, imbricate; petals 3, outer one, 1 x 0.3 cm, rolled up, pink dotted, lateral 2, 1-1.5 x 0.7-1 cm, clawed, subequal, oblong-lanceolate, lower pair scaly; stamens 9 monadelphous, only 3 fertile, others reduced to bristle, base pubescent; anthers versatile; ovary half inferior, stipitate, adnate to the disc, ovules many; style attenuate, tomentose; stigma globose. Fruit a pod 10-15 x 1-2 cm, oblong, fruit wall crustaceous, mesocarp pulpy, endocarp septate, leathery, indehiscent; seeds 3-8 or more, obovoid-orbicular, compressed, brown.
Canopy compact and spreading. Trunk stout with deep furrows, Bark thick, dark brown, cracked. Leaves compound. Small flowers, yellowish with red veins in the petals. Fruit a brown curved pod, seeds enclosed in choclate brown pulp.
Assamese
Teteli
Eng
Tamarind
English
Indian date
Sampalok
Tamarind
Tamarind tree
Hin
Imli
Hindi
Imli
Irula
Puliyamaram
Sullamaram
Kannada
Hunse
Malayalam
Amlam
Balapuli
Kolpuli
Puli
Valampuli
Other
Assamese
Bengali
Camalindo
Gujarati
Hindi
Indian Date
Kannada
Konkani
Madeira Mahogany
Malayalam
Manipuri
Marathi
Nepalese
Oriya
Pali
Puliya
Punjabi
Sanskrit
Sulla
Tamarind
Tamil
Telugu
Tintuli
Urdu
Imlii
Amli
Amili
Amlaphalah
Amlam
Amlavrukshah
Amalika
Amlika
Amalah
Imli
Imli
Gurupatra
Chandah
Charitra
Chincha
Chintidi
Chinch
Chinchyaam
Chukramla
Chukra
Titri
Tintidika
Tintiri
Tintidah
Tintili
Tintilika
Phalamlam
Mahamlam
Vrukshamlam
Shreshtamlam
Khati Aamli
Amlika
Amlamu
Chincha
Chinta
Tintrin
Ambli
Imli
Hunase
Ambilam
Intam
Ekin
Etala
Otimam
Kincam
Canciva-karani
Cantan
Puli
Puli
Valamapuli
Amlika
Tintidika
Tentula
Tenteli
Mange
Tamil
Puli
Puliyamaram
highly commercialized medicinal plants is known for its potent anti-inflammatory activities. 7, 8 This tropical tree has been used to treat inflammation, stomach pain, throat pain, and rheumatism in traditional medicine