Myanmar name: Tha-le
English name: Pomegranate Tree
Family: Punicaceae
Burmese-Myanmar name in Nagathein :3-326
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{tha.lè:} Punica granatum L.
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Botanical name: Punica granatum L. Sp. Pl. 472. 1753. Myanmar name: Tha-le English name: Pomegranate Tree Family: Punicaceae
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Identification characters:
A large deciduous shrub, or a small tree, often armed with small spines,
axillary or terminal. Leaves opposite or fasciculate, simple; exstipulate;
petioles very short; laminae oblong-elliptic or oblong-oblanceolate or obovate,
the bases attenuate, the margins entire, the tips acute or obtuse, unicostate,
reticulate, the surfaces glabrous, pellucid-punctate, the upper shining, the
lower green colour darker. Inflorescences mostly solitary cymes, sometimes 2- to
4-flowered, terminal on short shoots or sometimes axillary. Flowers large,
showy, ebracteate, ebracteolate, subsessile, bisexual, actinomorphic,
pentamerous, epigynous. Calyx synsepalous, 5- to 7-lobed, the tubes campanulate,
forming a hypanthium below, adnate to the ovary, enlarged above, fleshy. Corolla
apopetalous, the petals 5-7, obovate, crumpled in bud, emerging from edge of
hypanthium, inserted between calyx lobes, scarlet. Androecium polyandrous,
stamens very numerous, emerging in many whorls from upper half of hypanthium
below the petals, the filaments filiform, the anthers dithecous, wllipsoid,
dorsifixed, dehiscence longitudinal. Pistil 1, ovary inferior, globose, 5- to
9-carpelled, syncarpous, the locules 2-tiered, the upper 5- to 9-loculed, the
placentation parietal, the ovules numerous in each locule, the style long,
slender, the stigma capitate, Fruit a berry crowned with persistent calyx lobes,
globose; seeds many, angular, testa fleshy forming the pulp in fruit, non-endospermic.
Flowering period: June-July
Fruiting period: October-November
Distribution: Planted mainly on highlands.
Parts used and uses:
Root: Anthelmintic
Root bark: Haemorrhoids; Bleeding piles; Leucorrhoea; Infantile cough; Infantile
diarrhoea; Intrauterine disease
Bark: Bronchitis; Dysentery; Infections
Leaf: Psychosis; Opthalmia; Antidote for poisons; Tinnitus
Flower: Epistaxis
Unripe:
fruit: Antiemetic; Indigestion; Gains weight
Ripe fruit: Aphrodisiac; Promotes peristalsis of the intestine; Biliousness;
Carminative; Expectorant; Gains weight; Laryngitis; Heart disease; Stomatitis;
Opthalmia; Pyrexia
Sour fruit: Carminative; Expectorant
Sweet fruit: Pyrexia; Laryngitis; Stomatitis; Heart disease; Carminative;
Expectorant; Biliousness; To allay thirst; Gives energy; Promotes
spermatogenesis; Promotes brain function; Slight constipation
Sweetish sour fruit: Appetizer; Heartburn; Biliousness
Fruit wall: Amoebic dysentery; Haemorrhoid; Cough; Infections.
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