Scientific Name

Xylosma controversa Clos


Other Names


Life Form

Tree


Family

Salicaceae



Image by - Saroj Kasaju
Usages

Medicine- Stem bark Used for the treatment of pain (analgesic)


Native to

China, India, Nepal


Habitat

Wet tropical biome, low elevation.


Conservation Status

Least Concern



Plant Description

Evergreen shrubs 4-10m

Stems often spiny, bark gray-brown; branchlets terete, glabrous or puberulous.

Leaf blade elliptic to oblong-elliptic

Flowers numerous, greenish white, 3-4 mm in diam

Red, drying black, globose, 3-5 mm in diam eter.


Phenology

Flowering: Apr-May