Mhow, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
May 2008, Ambedkar Garden Mhow
Nature Note From Mhow: The J...
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Mhow, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
May 2008, Ambedkar Garden Mhow
Nature Note From Mhow: The Jarul blooms....
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Taxonomic Name: Lagerstroemia speciosa
Common Names:
Giant Crape-myrtle, Queen's Crape-myrtle or Banabá Plant, Pride of India, Rose of India , Jarul, Arjuna, Motabandara
This tree is native to India. (Tropical Southern Asia, according to the Wikipedia article and NE and S. India as Pradip Krishen's Trees of Delhi tells us).
This is not only a beautiful tree but also a very useful tree. The leaves are very effective in lowering blood sugar levels. They also have very impressive anti-obesity properties. According to Pradip Krishen's book the seeds are supposed to be narcotic. The timber is most sought after.


For more information:
(1) Wikipedia article on the Jarul Click here
(2) Trees of Delhi (page 72) by Pradip Krishen.
(3) banabaherb.com - A website dedicated to this tree
(4) A technical article on the anti-diabetic and anti-obesity properties of this tree in Oxford Journals. Click here.
The previous nature note from Mhow was on the unlucky baby python. Close
Hi Bunty... wow!!! thanks for the beautiful comment... Dev
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Dev Babu,

Had missed this one. This tree is one of my favourites along with the indian laburnum.
Bunty.
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Hi santhemant.... each tree has its own beauty in different seasons... will check the trees in your blog too... regards... dev
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It is so nice you select and portray each type of trees well.each of them even of same species has ist own charachter form and 'attitude'. Just add the time of year of flowering blooming or time of the pics takem for record as you know the best -each tree the same one looks differenty in each of tyhe six seasons.
jack fruit and Karvanda tree on my recent blog -mulshi lake -invited to see them.
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Hi Lakshmi... you are right... It is only when I looked up what seemed to be a pretty tree with beautiful flowers did I realise the power hidden within it...
thanks for your visit
regards
Dev
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DKV
What a beautiful and yet potent tree with such potential to help us
lakshmi
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Hi Melody thanks to your comment and Kalyanee's comment I checked again and realised that I had wrongly identified the Jarul as the Jacaranda... Thanks for making me search again... regards... Dev
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Hi Kalyanee... thanks to your comment I did a thorough check and realised that I had wrongly identified this tree as the jacaranda... it is actually the Jarul.... many thanks... regards.... Dev
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Hi Melody... as I told Kalyanee the flowers are lavender or purply-blue... But I would like to check some other features to confirm that I havent wrongly identified this tree... thanks for the visit and the comment.. regards.. Dev
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Hi Kalyanee.. thanks for the visit and the info... According to Pradip Krishen's book The Trees of Delhi which is one of my main sources of information the flowers are lavender or purply-blue... I will check again so that there is no doubt as to which tree this is.
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