Bio Diversity Park

Common Name : Oriental arborvitae

Hindi Name : मोरपंखी | Scientific Name : Platycladus orientalis
Family : Cupressaceae
Uses : It is has environmental uses, as a medicine and for food. It is cultivated as an ornamental plant in all over the world. The ripe seeds, leaves and twigs are used in Chinese medicine. The seeds, sweet to the taste, are used as a sedative in the treatment of minor headache, insomnia, palpitation and as a coagulant. The leaves are bitter-sweet and astringent, used to treat fever, bleeding of the nose, vomiting of blood and blood in the urine.
Native: Russian Far East to E. Central China and Korea
General Description:

It is a tree and grows primarily in the temperate biome. Morpankhi is a plant which is found in every small garden in India. It is a densely branched evergreen conifer that can become 50 ft tall with a spread of 20. However, it is commonly grown as a smaller, bushier shrub. It tends to have several to many stems, but can be trimmed to a single leader stem creating a treelike form. The overall shape is conical, with the crown becoming more irregular and spreading with age. The bark is rusty-brown and fibrous. The numerous slender ascending branches support shoots that spread out in flat, vertical planes. The leaves are like little scales overlapping and tightly packed on the shoots. The cones are 15-25 mm long, green ripening brown in about 8 months from pollination, and have 6-12 thick scales arranged in opposite pairs.