Bio Diversity Park

Common Name : Chittagoong Wood, Indian Redwood

Hindi Name : चिकरासी | Scientific Name : Chukrasia tabularis
Family : Meliaceae
Uses : The timber is highly prized for high-grade cabinet work, decorative panelling, furniture, musical instruments, interior joinery such as doors, windows and light flooring, sporting goods and for carving. It is also used for railway sleepers, ship and boat building, packing boxes and general construction. Flowers contain a red and yellow dye, bark and leaves contain commercial gums and tannins and the astringent bark has medicinal uses. The seed coat is crushed and boiled or eaten raw to treat diarrhoea. An extract from the leaves is used to treat malaria and fungal problems.
Native: South Asia
General Description:

It is a large tree, able to grow up to 30 - 40m tall. Girth size can reach up to 1 - 1.7 m wide, branching usually starts from 18 m up. Green leaves, paripinnate and about 30 - 50cm long, each leaf consist of 4 - 6 pairs leaflets with dentate margins, usually smooth surface. Small, cream or white 4 - 5 petaled fragrant flowers, mostly axillary and borne on a panicle inflorescence up to 10 - 30cm long, unisexual. Fruit is an ovoid 3 - 5 valved capsule about 2.5 - 5cm long.