Diospyros malabarica

Diospyros malabarica (Desr.) Kostel.

Order	Ericales
Family	Ebenaceae
Genus	Diospyros

2n =

Origin : India to South-Esat Asia

wild

English	Malabar ebony

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Uses summary

• wood: streaked ebony (PROSEA); greyish (Wealth of India)
• seeds: astringent (medicine)
• fruit (young): tannin for dying, gum for caulking and as glue
• fruit (ripe): edible
• medicinals: fruit, seed oil, bark

Popular names

• English:
  • Malabar ebony (PROSEA)
  • gaus persimmon (Wealth of India)
• Sanskrit: tinduka, krishnasara, virupaka (Wealth of India)
• Hindi: gab, talatendu, makurkendi (Wealth of India)
• Bengali: gab, makurkendi, tendu (Wealth of India)
• Marathi: timburi, temburni (Wealth of India)
• Telugu: tinduki, gabu (Wealth of India)
• Tamil: kattatti, kavikattai, tumbi (Wealth of India)
• Kannada: holetupare, kusharta (Wealth of India)
• Malayalam: panachi, vananji (Wealth of India)
• Uriya: dhusarokendu, kendu (Wealth of India)

• Indonesia: culiket (Sundanese), kledung (Javanese), klakur ((Timor) (PROSEA)
• Malaysia: kayu arang, kamoi bukit, kumun (peninsular) (PROSEA)
• Burma: plab, tako suam (PROSEA)
• Cambodia: tang kor (PROSEA)
• Laos: küa namz, hnag hèèwx, lang dam (PROSEA)
• Thailand: tako suan (northern), tako thai (general), phlap (peninsular) (PROSEA)
• Vietnam: thi dâù heo, cuỡm thi (PROSEA)

Classification

Diospyros malabarica (Desr.) Kostel. (1834)

synonyms:

• Diospyros glutinifera Roxb. (1795)
• Diospyros embryopteris Pers. (1807), nom. illeg.
• Diospyros globularia (Miq.) Koord. & Valeton (1898)
• Diospyros peregrina (Gaertn.) Gürke (1891)

References

• PROSEA 5(2), 1995. Plant resources of South-East Asia. vol. 5(2). Timber trees : minor commercial timbers. ed. by R.H.M.J. Lemmens, I. Soerianegara & W.C. Wong. Leiden/Wageningen, Backhuys/PROSEA. (Bogor, PROSEA, 1995). 655 p.
• Wealth of India (The), 1952. A dictionary of Indian raw materials and industrial products. Vol. 3. Raw materials : D-E. New-Delhi, Council of scientific and industrial research. XX-236-XXX p., 22 pl., index vol. 1-3. (as Diospyros peregrina)

Links

• BHL
• GRIN
• IPNI
• Mansfeld
• Multilingual Plant Name Database
• Plant List
• PROSEA on Pl@ntUse
• Prota4U
• Tela Botanica
• Wikipédia