The Cannon Ball Tree - நாகலிங்கம் - Couroupita guianensis, planted along the Pan Island Expressway near Simei, Singapore.
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This is a unique tree. I am from Jakarta - Indonesia, I don't think I have ever seen this kind here. Is it a fruit or just a tree?
ReplyDeleteLena - lena2608@ecunet.org
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ReplyDeleteSeen this tree along potong pasir. Does it ahve any medicine value?
Nita
Lena, I am happy that my blog brought you closer to us,in Singapore, and those plants that surround us here.
ReplyDeleteThe Couropita guianensis is a tree; its fruits cannon-ball like, thus cannon-ball tree. This tree is native of South America, probably introduced to tropical Asia many centuries ago. But the fact that has a Tamil common name, Nagalingam, suggests that it could have been native of Tropical Asia as well.
The English common-name 'cannon-ball tree'leaves me wondering if the Europeans discovered the tree in, perhaps, Brazil after the 'invention' of the cannon - about a few hundred years ago.
And, I think, the trees are growing somewhere in the rural areas of Indonesia; you may have missed them if they are not in blooms then. Your Forestry Department may help.
The picture here show an individual tree, hightly fertile, we can see from the number of fruits it is bearing.
More later...
Dear Nita,
ReplyDeleteThank you for pointing me to Potong Pasir. I will go there and see one day.
The Couroupita guianensis has not much use in native medicine, sometimes used as a remedy for skin problems, anti-fungal, maybe..
The pulp of the fruit is edible - ie,it is non-poisonous; but is not eatable because its smell may put you off. But you may try it you want.
And I am much less a medicine-man than a horticulturist, I must admit.
I've neva seen this plant b4..and i did not know all this plants had a tamil name.This is very interesting.I would love to see more of this and share with my children and mum..nice work!!
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ReplyDeleteThat's my intention when I started this blog - to give the Tamil names of these plants that we see everyday. Especially for the children - a Tamil enrichment exercise for them while creating an interest in studying plants.
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