Tree
Parkia timoriana (DC.)Merr.
🗒 Synonyms
synonym | Acacia niopo Litv. |
synonym | Inga timoriana DC. |
synonym | Mimosa biglobosa Auct. non Jacq. |
synonym | Mimosa peregrina Blanco |
synonym | Parkia africana Auct. non R.Br. |
synonym | Parkia biglobosa Auct. |
synonym | Parkia calcarata Lecomte |
synonym | Parkia grandis Hassk. |
synonym | Parkia javanica Auct. |
synonym | Parkia roxburghii G.Don |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Life Cycle
Flowering: August-September. Fruiting: October-February
Komor, P. & Devi, O.S. 2016. Edible bioresources & livelihoods. Assam State Biodiversity Board, Guwahati. pp. 296
Morphology
Tree Bean is a very large tree about 25-40 m in height endemic to North-East India. The leaves are evenly bipinnate and 30-80 cm long. The pinnae are 40-60 in number and 8-20 cm long. The leaflets are 60-140, linear-oblong, 6-12 mm long, close-set, shining above, and pointed at the tip. The flower-heads are dense, obovoid or perform, up to 6 cm long, hanging from leaf axils like old-fashioned electric bulbs on long cable-like stalks. The flowers are white and yellow, about 1 cm long. The fruit is a long, flattened legume pod about 25-30 cm long and 3.5 cm wide, rather thick, pendulous, and black and shinning when mature, and contain about 15-20 seeds. The pods are edible, and are considered a delicacy by Manipur communities. Their pulp is golden yellow, with a sweetish taste and an odor like that of violets
Komor, P. & Devi, O.S. 2016. Edible bioresources & livelihoods. Assam State Biodiversity Board, Guwahati. pp. 296
A middle sized unarmed tree with spreading branches. Leaves bipinnate. Flowers pale yellow; pod 10 - 20 inch. by 1- 5 inch., smooth, dark brown. Generally found in Sibsagar & Barak valley and in Karbi Anglong
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
Shrubs or small trees, 2-6 m tall; branchlets pubescent, glabrous when old, with brown lenticels. Leaves compound; pinnae 4-8 pairs, ca. 5-16 cm; rachis pubescent with black glands; stipules caducous, deltoid, very small; leaflets 5-15 pairs, lamina ca. 7-13 × 1.5-3 mm, linear-oblong, cuneate at base, acute at apex, ciliate along margin, main vein close to upper margin. Heads usually 1 or 2, axillary, ca. 2-3 cm in diam.; peduncle ca. 2-4 cm; bracts deciduous, pubescent; Flowers white; calyx ca. 3 mm, outside glabrous at base, puberulent at apex, 5-toothed; petals ca. 5 mm, narrowly oblanceolate, outside pubescent; stamens 10, ca. 7 mm, sparsely pubescent; ovary shortly stipitate, sparsely pubescent; stigma cupular. Legume 10-18 × 1.4-2 cm, straight, strap-shaped, flat, coriaceous, base attenuate, pedicel ca. 3 cm, pubescent, beak acute, hard. Seeds 6-25, ca. 6-9 × 3-4.5 mm, brown, glossy, narrowly ovoid, flat. (Singh, 2000).
French Institute of Pondicherry
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Open areas, roadsides, forest edges
Open areas, roadsides, forest edges
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Description
Global Distribution
India: Assam,manipur, Meghalaya; South Asia
Indian Distribution
Sivasagar, Barak Valley
Global Distribution
India, South Asia.
Indian Distribution
Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya.
Assam Distribution
Sivasagar, Barak Valley
French Institute of Pondicherry
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Folk medicine
System Of Medicines Used In
Folk medicine
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=4719
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The tender pods are eaten as vegetables especially with fishes
Nutritional Value
Energy 514 kcal; carbohydrate 37.3 gm; protein 26.1 gm; total fat 28.8 gm; dietary fibre 2.56 gm; ash 5.05 gm; vitamin C 22.2 mg; folic acid 7.53 gm and small amount of beta-carotene per 100 gm
Komor, P. & Devi, O.S. 2016. Edible bioresources & livelihoods. Assam State Biodiversity Board, Guwahati. pp. 296
The tender pods are eaten as vegetable especially with fishes
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
Tender fruits are eaten as vegetable.
French Institute of Pondicherry
Attributions | French Institute of Pondicherry |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Folklore
They are considered to have laxative and anti-helmintic properties. The Pods are used in treatment of bleeding piles and bark extract is used by traditional healers in the treatment of diarrhoea and dysentery. The bark and leaves are also employed for making lotion applied to sores and skin affections. Powdered seeds are considered useful when applied externally to wounds, ulcers, and the abdomen to relieve pain
Komor, P. & Devi, O.S. 2016. Edible bioresources & livelihoods. Assam State Biodiversity Board, Guwahati. pp. 296
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📚 Information Listing
References
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=4719
- Singh, N.P., Singh, K.P., Singh, D.K. 2002. Flora of Mizoram: Vol. I: 539 Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.
Information Listing > References
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=4719
- Singh, N.P., Singh, K.P., Singh, D.K. 2002. Flora of Mizoram: Vol. I: 539 Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.
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🐾 Taxonomy
Root | Root |
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum | Tracheophyta |
Class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
Order | Fabales |
Family | Fabaceae |
Genus | Parkia |
Species | Parkia timoriana (DC.) Merr. |
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