Daheya / Siamese Roughbush
Streblus asper
- Habit
- Tree
- Found in India
- Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Tamil Nadu, Telangana & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Daheya
Identify Daheya 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: Leaves used like sandpaper (Siamese roughbush).
- Confirm leaf shape: Elliptic (widest at middle).
- Confirm leaf margin: Toothed.
- Confirm flower arrangement: Head.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Assam and nearby regions.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Streblus asper
- Genus
- Streblus
- Family
- Moraceae
- Habit
- Tree
- Habitat
- Open, scrub, moist and dry deciduous forests
- Distribution
- India including Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, China, Hainan, Thailand, Malesia
- Found in India
- Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Assam, West Bengal, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Gujarat, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Arunachal Pradesh, Haryana
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- Elliptic (widest at middle)recorded
- Leaf margin
- ToothedrecordedA saw-like or jagged edge (serrate or dentate).“The leaves are approximately 5–10 centimetres (2–4 inches) long, rigid, oval-shaped, irregularly toothed, and borne on small petioles.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leaf surface
- Hirsute (coarsely hairy)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Daheya itself; the rest are typical of the Moraceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower arrangement
- HeadrecordedA dense, tight cluster of many small stalkless flowers, packed into a rounded or flat head.“Staminate flower heads are spherical with minute flowers;” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Catkin
- Fruit
- Drupe
Characters marked “recorded” are for Daheya itself; the rest are typical of the Moraceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Hindi
- Daheya, Dahia, Karchanna
- Bengali
- sehora, sahra, shewra, শেওড়া
- Tamil
- kurripila, kuttippirai, parayan, பராய்
- Telugu
- baranika, baranki, barinika
- Kannada
- ಅಖೋರ್ ಮರ Akhor mara, ಮಿಟಲೆ Mitale, ದರ್ದುರಿ Darduri
- Malayalam
- parakam, paruva, sakhotavrksam, പരുവമരം
- Marathi
- poi, karera, kharoli
About Daheya
Siamese Roughbush (Streblus asper) is a tree in the Moraceae family. In India it has been recorded in Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and 13 other states. It grows in open, scrub, moist and dry deciduous forests. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Uses
It is long used in traditional medicine and stripped for fibre used in rope and matting. Those medicinal uses are traditional attributions, not medical advice. Parts of this plant are reported as poisonous — treat it as unsafe to eat and wash your hands after handling.
Moraceae
Fig/Mulberry family
Daheya belongs to the Moraceae family.
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