Description :
Goolar is an attractive fig tree witha crooked trumk and a spreading crown. Unlike the banyan, it has no aerial roots. The most distinctive aspect of this tree is the red, furry figs in short clusters, which grow directly out of the trunk of the tree. Those looking for the flower of goolar should know that the fig is actually a compartment carrying hundreds of flowers. One might wonder how these flowers enclosed in a ball are pollinated. The flowers are pollinated by very small wasps that crawl through the opening in search of a suitable place to reproduce (lay eggs) Without this pollinator service fig trees cannot reproduce by seed.
Details :
Botanical Name: Ficus racemosa
English Name :Country Fig, Cluster Fig, Gular fig
Common Name : Cluster fig
Hindi Name : Goolar,Umari, Udumbara, Pushp-hina, Dharma Patra, Goolar
Manipuri Name : Heibong
Telugu Name : Paidi
Sanskrit Name : Udumbara
Marathi Name : Umber,Udumbar, Umbar
Malayalam Name : Atti,Atthi Al, Jantuphalam, Atthi
Tamil Name : Atti,Malaiyin Munivan, Vellai Atthi
Kannada Name : Rumadi,Atti, Atti Mara
Oriya Name : Dimri
Bengali Name :Udumbara
Gujarati Name :Umbaro, Goolar
Konkani Name :Rhumbud
Manipuri Name :Heibong
Sanskrit Name :Vasudrumah, Yagniyah, Hemadugdhaka
Telugu Name :Bodda, Brahmamamidi, Atti
Urdu Name :Dumar
Part Used : Bark, Root, Latex, Fruits
Medicinal Uses :
- Roots are useful in hydrophobia whereas bark is acrid, cooling, galactagogue and good for gynaecological disorders.
- Fruits are astringent to bowels, styptic, tonic and useful in the treatment of leucorrhoea, blood disorders, burning sensation, fatigue, urinary discharges, leprosy, menorrhagia, epistaxis and intestinal worms.
- Bark is useful in asthma and piles. Latex is applied externally on chronic infected wounds to alleviate edema, pain and to promote the healing.
- The tender leaf buds are applied on the skin, in the form of paste, to improve the complexion.
- Leaves are astringent to bowels and good in case of bronchitis whereas fruits are useful in treatment of dry cough, loss of voice, diseases of kidney and spleen.
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