Vitex pinnata L.
False Teak / Kulimpapa/Kulimpapat (Bru.)
Description
Traditional Medicinal Uses
Ecology
Propagation
Distribution
Precaution
Terrestrial scented tree that can grow up to 15 m tall. Leaves are palmately compound, oppositely arranged with usually 3-5 leaflets. Leaflet blades are slightly elliptic, acuminate at apex, rounded at base with entire margin and glands on the underside of leaves. Stems are branching. Outer barks are fissured and flaky while the inner barks are pale yellow turning green if exposed to air. Flowers are creamy-yellow or whitish-blue and small. Inflorescence a terminal panicle. Fruit a subglobose,
The leaves are soaked with coconut milk into a herbal bath as a remedy for jaundice and chicken pox especially for children. The plant
It thrives in peatswamp forests, in secondary forests and on gentle slopes. It prefers sandy loamy soil under sunlight to shade.
Seeds and stem cutting.
Native to south and
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