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Food-Ripe fruit consumed raw, it has a sweetish flavour. Medicine- The leaves are used to remedy dysentery and diarrhoea. The bark of this therapeutically valuable tree is attributed with tonic, astringent,cooling and diuretic properties in Ayurveda. A decoction of the root fibres is useful as a treatment against gonorrhoea, whereas the tender ends of the aerial roots are used for obstinate vomiting. Eco-restoration-Erosion control or dune stabilization
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan
Dry tropical biome.
Evergreen tree
Branches great numbers of shoots, which take root and become new trunks.
Simple, ovate to elliptic, with a rounded base and pointed tip.
Small, inconspicuous, produced inside a fleshy receptacle .
Fleshy, rounded figs, containing numerous tiny seeds.