Hingot / Desert Date
Balanites roxburghii
- Habit
- Tree
- Found in India
- Gujarat, Rajasthan, Telangana & more
- Flowering
- January-August
How to identify Hingot
Identify Hingot by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a tree habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Spiny branches, edible sour fruit (desert date).
- Confirm flower colour: Green.
- Confirm flower arrangement: Solitary.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: January-August.
- In India, compare location records such as Gujarat, Rajasthan, Telangana, Maharashtra and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Simaroubaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Hingot.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Balanites roxburghii
- Genus
- Balanites
- Family
- Simaroubaceae
- Habit
- Tree
- Habitat
- Scrub and Dry deciduous forests
- Native to
- India
- Distribution
- India, Myanmar
- Found in India
- Gujarat, Rajasthan, Telangana, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand
- Flowering & fruiting
- January-August
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- GreenrecordedGreen or greenish“The inconspicuous pale green flowers of B.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Flower arrangement
- SolitaryrecordedA single flower borne alone, not in a cluster.“Species like Apis florea, Apis dorsata and multiple species of native solitary bees can be seen flocking to flowering B.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Characters marked “recorded” are for Hingot itself; the rest are typical of the Simaroubaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Hindi
- हिंगोट Hingot, हिंगन hingan, हिंगन का पेड़ Hingan-ka-per
- Tamil
- Nanchundan, Nancuntan
- Telugu
- Gara, Gara-chettu, గారచెట్టు
- Kannada
- ಇಂಗಳ Ingala, ಇಂಗಳರಾಡ Ingalarada, ಇಂಗಳಾರ Ingalara
- Malayalam
- namunta, nanchunta, Nanjunta
- Marathi
- Hingalbet, Hingam, Hingu
- Gujarati
- Angario
About Hingot
Desert Date (Balanites roxburghii) is a tree in the Simaroubaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Telangana and 6 other states. It grows in scrub and Dry deciduous forests. Flowering and fruiting run from January to August.
Simaroubaceae
Quassia Family
Hingot belongs to the Simaroubaceae family.
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