Medium-sized tree with large ovate, ovate-oblong leaves clustered at the end of the branchlets, old leaves often red/purple; flowers large, white and pink, in dense spikes, fruits large globose green, crowded with calyx tube, deciduous.

Astringent (fruit and bark)

AgroForestryTree Database

Careaborin (leaf); barringtogenol (seed); betulin, betulinic acid (bark)

Snakebite antidote (fruit and bark), in treating body pain, fever, cold, cough, and leucoderma. The plant parts are used to treat snakebite, ulcers, healing wound, cough, cold, abscesses and dysentery.

Chandel et al., Biodiversity in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India.