Aamari / Sour Currant Shrub
Antidesma acidum
- Habit
- Tree
- Found in India
- Assam, Karnataka, West Bengal & more
- Flowering
- May-December
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Antidesma acidum
- Genus
- Antidesma
- Family
- Euphorbiaceae
- Habit
- Tree
- Habitat
- Semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests and sacred groves
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Native to
- Tropical Asia
- Distribution
- India incl. Andaman & Nicobar, Myanmar, Thailand, South China, Indo-China, Java, Nepal
- Found in India
- Assam, Karnataka, West Bengal, Meghalaya, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Sikkim, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Odisha, Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Nagaland, Uttar Pradesh
- Flowering & fruiting
- May-December
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- ObovaterecordedEgg-shaped but broader near the tip rather than the base.“Obovate to elliptic-oblong papery leaves;” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leaf margin
- Entire (smooth edge)recorded
- Leaf surface
- Pubescent (softly hairy)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Aamari itself; the rest are typical of the Euphorbiaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- GreenrecordedGreen or greenish
- Fruit type
- DruperecordedA fleshy fruit with a single hard stone/pit enclosing the seed.“Ellipsoid smooth drupes, 4–6 by 3–4 mm, nearly terete to laterally compressed.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Capsule
Characters marked “recorded” are for Aamari itself; the rest are typical of the Euphorbiaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Hindi
- Dhakki, आमरी Aamari, Khatua
- Nepali
- अरचल Archal
- Bengali
- অর্চল Archal, মুট্টা Mutta
- Tamil
- Asaripuli, Keathekkayyaa, புளிச்சமரம்
- Telugu
- Pella-gumudu
- Kannada
- ಬಿಳಿಕೊಮ್ಮೆ Bilikomme, ಕರಿಹುಳಿಪ Karrihulipa, ಸಣ್ಣಗೂಗೆ Sannagooge
- Malayalam
- Areepazham, Arippazhachedi, Sirupulli, ആശാരിപ്പുളി
- Marathi
- Ghondurili
- Assamese
- হেলচ
About Aamari
Sour Currant Shrub (Antidesma acidum) is a tree in the Euphorbiaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Assam, Karnataka, West Bengal and 16 other states. It grows in semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests and sacred groves. Flowering and fruiting run from May to December.
Uses
Locally it is grown for parts that are eaten and long used in traditional medicine. Those medicinal uses are traditional attributions, not medical advice.
Euphorbiaceae
Spurge/Euphorbia family
Aamari belongs to the Euphorbiaceae family.
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