Surangi – सुरंगी

COMMON NAMES:

Surangi, Ceylon Ironwood, Indian Rose Chestnut, Nagkesar, Pongu;

Hindi: Surangi, Nagkesar;

Marathi: Surangi, Raanundi;

Kannada: Gardundi, Laringi, Punay, Suringi, Wundi, Surugi;

Konkani: Surangan;

Malayalam: Seraya, Suran-punna;

Assamese: Suklong;

Sanskrit: Naga-kesaram-pushpam, Punnag;

Tamil: Nagap-pu;

Telugu: Suraponna.

BOTANICAL NAME: Mammea suriga (Buch.-Ham. ex Roxb.) Kosterm.

Synonym: Calophyllum suriga Buch.-Ham. ex Roxb.

FAMILY: Calophyllaceae

 

DESCRIPTION: 

  • It is a medium sized endemic tree. 
  • The leaves are thickly coriaceous, dark green, base rounded, mid rib stout prominent, veins few, indistinct, very slender, and nery beautiful in appearance, short petiole. 
  • The flowers are sports beautiful rounded buds, which blooms into four-petaled white flower. The petals are wide and rounded, and there is a mass of yellow stamens at the center. Flowers are extremely fragrant.
  • The fruit is a indehiscent drupe, 1 in long, obliquely ovoid, and 1-seeded, leathery and pulpy.

 

FLOWERING: December- January.

FRUITING: December- January.

 

PLANT PART USED: Bark, Root, Flower buds, Seeds.

 

USES: 

  • It is used as a mild stimulant, carminative and astringent to treat dyspepsia and hemorrhoids.
  • The roots are used as a medicine to treat partial headaches.
  • It has anti-oxidant and hepatoprotective activities.
  • The seed oil in a small dose is used to treat dysuria and urinary tract infections with pus formation.
  • It is used to treat gallstone pain, prostate inflammation and pain, and malaria. 

 

PROPAGATION: It can be propagated by seeds and vegetative cuttings.