Description
Indrajao is a small, deciduous tree with a light gray, scaly smooth bark. Native to India and Burma, Wrightia is named after a Scottish physician and botanist William Wright (1740 – 1827).
The seeds are bitter, astringent, acrid, carminative, constipating, depurative, anthelmintic and febrifuge.
Its pungent fresh leaves quickly relieve toothaches. Leaves, flowers and fruits are source of a kind of indigo called pala-indigo. White, close-grained wood looks like ivory and is much used for carving and wood-turning. In piles, fever, diarrhoea, roundworm and colic.
Botanical Name : Wrightia Tinctoria
English Name : Sweet Indrajao,Ivory wood, Pala indigo plant
Common Name : Pala Indigo Plant, Dyers’s Oleander
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