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    By SylviaMay 24, 2019Updated:May 24, 2019No Comments8 Mins Read
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    Clammy cherry Quick Facts
    Name: Clammy cherry
    Scientific Name: Cordia dichotoma
    Origin China, the Ryukyu Islands of Japan, Taiwan, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Philippines Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Australia and New Caledonia
    Colors Yellow or pinkish-yellow shining which turns black on ripening
    Shapes Drupes sub globose, 2 cm in diameter, with sticky mesocarp
    Taste Mildly sweet
    Health benefits Beneficial for dyspepsia, diarrhea, dysentery fever, headache, stomach-ache, tumors, catarrh, gonorrhea, ringworm, spider bites and eruptive boils and various urinary disorders
    Cordia dichotoma commonly known as Clammy cherry is a species of flowering tree in the borage family, Boraginaceae. The plant is native to China (Fujian, Guangdong Guangxi, Guizhou, southeast Xizang, and Yunnan) the Ryukyu Islands of Japan, Taiwan, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Philippines Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Australia (Northern Territory and Queensland) and New Caledonia. Few of the popular common names of the plant include Fragrant Manjack, Bird lime tree, Clammy cherry, Cordia tree, Glueberry tree, Indian cherry, Indian glue berry, Sebesten, sebesten plum, pink pearl, snotty gobbles, snotty gobbles, cumming cordia, glue berry, anonang and Booch.

    Plant description

    Clammy cherry is a small to moderate sized deciduous, perennial fast-growing tree with a short bole and spreading crown that grows about 5-25 m tall and bole up to 60-100 cm in diameter. The plant is found growing in disturbed areas, farms, gardens, roadsides, coastal hills, open forests, thickets, urban or peri-urban areas, natural forests, riverbanks, coastal areas, inland fringes of mangroves, open woods on slopes, mountain stream sides, deciduous to moist deciduous and tidal forests as well as in moist monsoon forest. The plant tolerates a range of soils, but thrives on deep, moist, sandy loams, and does not grow well on dry, shallow, or gravelly soils. Stem bark is grey or brown rough, with shallow longitudinal wrinkles, and furrows, and about half inch thick. The bark is available in the form of pieces, 5 to 10 cm long, and 6 to 12 mm thick with dark greyish brown color. Branchlets are glabrous, and the young shoots are silvery grey.

    Leaves

    The leaves are simple, alternate, 6-10.5 cm long, 4-7.5 cm broad, broadly oval or elliptic-ovate, rounded at the base, obtuse or subacute at apex, entire or more or less coarsely sinuate-serrate in the upper half, glabrous on both sides, thin. They are glabrous above and tomentose beneath. Petioles are 1.7—4.3 cm long, and slender.

    Flowers

    Flowers are regular, bisexual, complete, short-stalked, actinomorphic, white and glabrous. A fully open flower is 6 mm in average diameter. Inflorescence is terminal or an axillary cyme, which almost resembling to a biparous cyme. It has 14 flowers per cluster. Calyx is cup-shaped. Sepals are about 4mm in length, slightly dentate from top, light green in color and gamoseplous. Corolla has four creamish white color petals which are 6 mm in length and polypetlous. Androecium contains two stamens, each having a very small filament and epipetalous. The gynoecium is bifurcated, 4 mm in length and having a globose shaped ovary at the base. The flowers open only at night. Flowering normally takes place from March till April.

    Fruits

    Fruit is a globular-ovoid drupe 1.3-2.5 cm long. It is smooth, and of the size of a cherry. It is yellowish brown, pink or nearly black, shinning on ripening, and the pulp is almost transparent, tough, and viscid. Epicarp is thick while mesocarp is mucilaginous and endocarp is hard and stony. Nut is cordate, and seed is solitary. The dried fruit is conical with acute apex, up to 2 cm in length, and 1.5 cm in diameter, occasionally with attached calyx, and pedicel, greyish brown to dark brown, surface shrunken, hard to break. The smell of the nut on cutting is heavy, and disagreeable. The seeds are mildly sweet in taste.

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    Traditional uses and benefits of Clammy cherry

    • Fruits can be used as an expectorant, for coughs and for lung diseases.
    • Decoction of the stem bark is taken for dyspepsia, diarrhea, dysentery fever, headache, stomach-ache, and as a tonic.
    • Externally, the moistened bark is maturative when applied to boils, swellings and tumors.
    • It is applied to ulcers in the mouth in the form of a gargle or as a powder.
    • Teeth are rubbed with the bark to strengthen them.
    • The bark is used to treat catarrh in Burma (Myanmar).
    • Juice of the leaves is also considered cooling, and is applied as a poultice to treat migraine, inflammation and swellings.
    • Powdered seeds or the fresh fruits are applied to skin eruptions and gonorrhea.
    • Fruit is very mucilaginous and highly esteemed for coughs and diseases of the chest, the uterus and the urethra.
    • In larger quantities it is given in bilious affections as a laxative.
    • The fruit is considered demulcent and the bark mildly astringent and tonic in India.
    • Seeds are considered a good remedy for ringworm; they are powdered, mixed with oil and applied topically.
    • In India, the mucilaginous fruits are used for cough and chest complaints on account of their demulcent properties.
    • Entire plant is used for snakebite, and a decoction of the fresh bark is used for fever and dyspepsia.
    • In Indo-China and Africa, the fruits are eaten, and are also used as an emollient and tonic.
    • Bark is a tonic and the powdered seeds are applied as a paste on skin problems.
    • Ripe seeds are used as an anthelmintic to treat taenia and ascarids in Vietnam.
    • In El Salvador and the West Indies, a decoction of the leaves is applied to bruises, swellings and skin diseases.
    • Pressed juice of the leaves is given to cure malaria.
    • Kernels are a good remedy in treatment of ringworm.
    • Leaves are useful as an external application to treat ulcers and headache.
    • The Javanese use the bark in treatment of fevers.
    • Bark paste was used for treatment on spider bites and eruptive boils.
    • Seed is considered to be beneficial in the treatment of difficult urination, fever, inflammation and various urinary disorders.
    • Tea made from the leaves is used in the treatment of headaches and as a wash for burns and scalds.
    • Poultice of the leaves and roots is applied to wounds.
    • An infusion of the leaves and roots is used as a wash on scalds, burns and VD sores.
    • Powdered seeds are applied to skin eruptions and gonorrhea.
    • Decoction of the stem bark is also beneficial after parturition.
    • Juice of the fruit is also useful to remove excess phlegm from the lungs and treats cough and asthma.
    • Cold infusion of the bark or root is given in a dose of 40-50 ml to treat burning micturition and difficulty in micturition.
    • Paste of root is applied over the area affected with skin diseases like eczema and ringworm.
    • Fresh juice of the fruit is known to increase the sperm count in male.
    • Decoction of the bark is consumed regularly to improve the general body strength and remove fatigue.
    • Juice of the bark along with coconut’ milk relieves severe colic.
    • Bark is given for dysentery together with Pomegranate rind.
    • Bark is useful in calculous affections, strangury, and catarrh.
    • Powdered bark is applied on itchy skin patches on hands, and legs.

    Culinary uses

    • Raw fruits are used as a vegetable.
    • It is a very good pickle of raw fruits can also make.
    • In India, the sweet, translucent pulp of the fruit is considered edible; the fruit can also be pickled.

    Other Facts

    • Mucilaginous substance of the fruit can be used as a gum for pasting sheets of paper or cardboard.
    • Larvae of the butterfly Arhopala micale feed on leaves of C. dichotoma.
    • Immature fruits are pickled and are also used as a vegetable fodder.
    • Leaves also produce good fodder.
    • Wood is ideal for producing fire by friction.
    • Wood is very durable and is said to have been used for making the Egyptian mummy cases.
    • Wood is used for temporary and light construction, small boats, tools and tool handles; sometimes also used for fuel.
    • Fibers of the bark are used to make ropes.
    • Leaves are used to wrap fish before cooking, and in Burma (Myanmar) they are used as plates and cigar wrappers in Indonesia.
    • Number of seeds per kg ranges from 4200-6700.
    • In Indo-China, a mature tree of C. dichotoma can produce 20-50 kg of fruit per year.
    • Clammy Cherry tree can be used to make fish pots and home-made cricket bats in Barbados.
    • The plant is grown as a hedge.
    • Quick-growing fruit tree, performing well under semi-arid conditions and suitable for planting along boundary and farm roads.
    • Glue can be made from the mucilaginous fruit.
    • Wood is used for house construction and agricultural implements.
    • The tree is used as a fuel wood.
    • In the Comoros the powdered bark is applied to the skin in cases of broken bones before a plaster is applied, to improve healing.
    • Bark juice together with coconut oil is taken to treat colic.
    • In Yemen it is used as a shade tree for coffee.
    • Mashed fruits enter in the preparation of sorghum beer.
    • Ash of the young branches is used to make soap in Burkina Faso.
    • In South-East Asia the leaves are used as cattle fodder.

    References:

    https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=565085#null

    http://www.hear.org/pier/species/cordia_dichotoma.htm

    https://www.cabi.org/ISC/datasheet/15395

    https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=CODI18

    https://uses.plantnet-project.org/en/Cordia_dichotoma_(PROSEA)

    http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Indian%20Cherry.html

    http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2736712

    https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/279663

    https://gd.eppo.int/taxon/CRHDC

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4557235/

    https://uses.plantnet-project.org/en/Cordia_myxa_(PROTA)

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    Chammy Cherry facts

    Name Clammy cherry
    Scientific Name Cordia dichotoma
    Native China (Fujian, Guangdong Guangxi, Guizhou, southeast Xizang, and Yunnan) the Ryukyu Islands of Japan, Taiwan, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Philippines Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Australia (Northern Territory and Queensland) and New Caledonia
    Common Names Fragrant Manjack, Bird lime tree, Clammy cherry, Cordia tree, Glueberry tree, Indian cherry, Indian glue berry, Sebesten, sebesten plum, pink pearl, snotty gobbles
    Name in Other Languages Arabic: Dilk
    Assamese: Goborsuta, goborhut, bahubara, Guburhuta, gobarhuta, boal, kotra, kotora, Buwalu
    Bengali: Bahubara, Boch, Bohari, buhul, boho-dari, Bahnaree, Bahuvar
    Bodo: Doba Khari
    Burmese:  Thanat, sebasten tree
    Chinese:  Pò bù zi (破布子), Shù zi zǐ (樹子仔),  Shù zi (樹 子), po bu mu (破布木)
    Cuba: Ateje Americano, ateje Americano, uva gomosa
    English:  Fragrant Manjack, Bird lime tree, Clammy cherry, Cordia tree, Glueberry tree, Indian cherry, Indian glue berry, Sebesten, sebesten plum, pink pearl, snotty gobbles
    French:  Sébestier dichotome, gommier
    Gujarati: Gunda (गुंदा), vado gundo (વદો ગુંદો), gundomoto, lepistan, vadagunda
    Hindi:  Gondhi, Lasura, Tenti dela, gundee (गुंदी), bahubara, bhokar, bohadori, borla, buhal, lasura, Lasoda (लसोड़ा), Tenti (टेंटी), Dela (डेला), bahuar (बहूआर), gunda (गुन्दा), lasoda (लसोड़ा), lessora, lasora, bhirala, chhota laslasa, chhota lasora, guslasah, rasalla
    Indonesia: Kendal, nunang, toteolo
    Japanese: Kakibachishanoki (カキバチシャノキ)
    Javanese: Kendal
    Kannada: Challe hannu (ಚಳ್ಳೆ ಹಣ್ಣು), Doducallu, Chikkachalli
    Khasi: Dieng mong
    Laos: Man, ‘man khôk
    Lepcha: Ninut
    Lesser Antilles: Coco chat, gum, kaka poul, sticky cherry, Turkey berry, white manjack
    Madras: Perunaruvuli
    Malay:  Manonang, Nimang, Sekendai, Sekendal, Tomatangtang
    Malayalam: Naṟuvari (നറുവരി), naruveeli, virasam (വിരശം), viri (വിരി), celu, cheruviri
    Malaysia: Sekendal, sekendai, petekat
    Manipuri: Lamkelaba
    Marathi: Bhōkarācē jhāḍa (भोकराचे झाड), Bhokar (भोकर), gondani (गोंदणी), gondhan (गोंधण), Shelu, bargund, bhonkar
    Mishing:  Siumung esing
    Mizo: Muk
    Myanmar: Thanet
    Nepalese:  Bohori, Lasura, Kalobohori
    Papua New Guinea: Cordia
    Persian: Sugpistan, Sebestan, Sapistan
    Philippines: Anonang, anonang-bakir, guma, sinaligan
    Punjabi: Lasura ( ਲਸੂੜਾ), laswara, lasuda
    Russian:  Kordiia indijskaia (Кордиа индийская), Kordiia vil’chataia (Кордия вильчатая)
    Saint Lucia: Glue, sip
    Sanskrit: Bahuka (बहुक), bahuvaraha (बहुवारः), uddalaka (उद्दलक), bahuvaraka, laghupichhila, Bhukampadaruka, Bhukarbudara, Bhuselu, Bhutadruma, Kshudrashleshmataka, Laghushelu, Laghushita, Laghushleshmataka, Madhubhutadruma, Sukshmaphala
    Sinhalese: Lolu, Lotu
    Sino–Tibetan: Lao
    Spanish: Ateje Americano, cereza blanca, uva gomosa
    Sumatran: Nunang
    Sundanese: Kendal
    Tagalog:  Anonang, Anonang bakir, Anonung, Anunong, Saloyong
    Tamil: Naru-villi (நறுவிலி), viricu (விரிசு), citam, naruvali, virisu, Naruvili, Selu, Sirunaruvili, Vallagu, Vidi, Viri, Viriyan, Vidi Maram
    Tehran: Sepistan
    Telugu: Nekkara (నెక్కర), slesmatakamu (శ్లేష్మాతకము), virigi (విరిగి), bankanakkera, chinna-nakkeru, botgiri, chinnabotuku
    Thailand: Mandong, phakmong, manmu, Paw man, Manma
    Unani: Sapistan
    Urdu: Sipistan, lasora
    Uriya: Amobhoto, Gondi
    Vietnamese: Tâm mộc hai ngả, lá bạc, lá trắng, thiên dầu thống
    Plant Growth Habit Small to moderate sized deciduous, perennial fast-growing tree
    Growing Climates Disturbed areas, farms, gardens, roadsides, coastal hills, open forests, thickets, Urban or peri-urban areas, Natural forests, Riverbanks, Coastal areas, inland fringes of mangroves, also in open forests, Open woods on slopes, mountain stream sides, deciduous to moist deciduous and tidal forests as well as in moist monsoon forest
    Soil Tolerates a range of soils, but thrives on deep, moist, sandy loams, and does not grow well on dry, shallow, or gravelly soils
    Plant Size 5-25 m tall, bole up to 60-100 cm in diameter
    Bark Grey or brown rough, with shallow longitudinal wrinkles, and furrows, and about half inch thick. The bark is available in the form of pieces, 5 to 10 cm long, and 6 to 12 mm thick with dark greyish brown color
    Branchlets Glabrous, and the young shoots are silvery grey
    Leaf Elliptic, oblong, 4-9 cm long, 3-7.5 cm broad, glabrous above, tomentose beneath, petioles 1-3.5 cm long
    Flowering season March – April
    Flower Flowers are regular, bisexual, complete, short-stalked, actinomorphic, white and glabrous. A fully open flower is 6 mm in average diameter
    Fruit Shape & Size Globular-ovoid drupe 1.3-2.5 cm long, smooth, and of the size of a cherry
    Fruit Color Yellow or pinkish-yellow shining which turns black on ripening
    Seed Ovoid, flattened, up to 6 mm long, endosperm absent
    Propagation By seed, cuttings or by stump plants
    Taste Mildly sweet
    Plant Parts Used Leaf, Bark, Flower, Kernel, Mucilage of fruit
    Season Beginning of July to the end of August

    Clammy cherry Scientific Classification

    Scientific Name: Cordia dichotoma

    Rank Scientific Name & (Common Name)
    Kingdom Plantae (Plants)
    Subkingdom Tracheobionta (Vascular plants)
    Infrakingdom Streptophyta  (land plants)
    Superdivision Spermatophyta (Seed plants)
    Division Magnoliophyta (Flowering plants)
    Subdivision Spermatophytina  (spermatophytes, seed plants, phanérogames)
    Class Magnoliopsida (Dicotyledons)
    Subclass Asteridae
    Superorder Asteranae
    Order Lamiales
    Family Boraginaceae (Borage family)
    Genus Cordia L. (cordia)
    Species Cordia dichotoma G. Forst. (fragrant manjack)
    Synonyms
    • Argyreia arborea Lour.
    • Bourreria glabra (Roth ex Roem. & Schult.) G.Don
    • Cordia blancoi Vidal
    • Cordia blancoi var. mollis Merr.
    • Cordia brownii DC.
    • Cordia chamissoniana G.Don
    • Cordia chamissoniana var. genuina Chodat
    • Cordia domestica Roth
    • Cordia domestica var. evolutior (C.B.Cl.) M.R.Almeida
    • Cordia evolutior Gamble
    • Cordia fulvosa Wight
    • Cordia fulvosa var. evolutior C.B.Cl.
    • Cordia griffithii C.B.Cl.
    • Cordia indica Lam.
    • Cordia ixiocarpa F.Müll.
    • Cordia latifolia Cham.
    • Cordia latifolia Wall.
    • Cordia latifolia Wall. ex G.Don
    • Cordia loureiri Roem. & Schult.
    • Cordia loureiroi Roem. & Schult.
    • Cordia myxa L.
    • Cordia myxa var. domestica (Roth) C.B.Clarke
    • Cordia myxa var. ixiocarpa (F.Muell.) Domin
    • Cordia officinalis Lam.
    • Cordia paniculata Roth
    • Cordia petta-pelioporet B.Heyne
    • Cordia petta-pelioporet B.Heyne ex Roth
    • Cordia platyphylla Steud.
    • Cordia polygama Wall.
    • Cordia scabrifolia Benth.
    • Cordia scabrifolia Benth. ex Griseb.
    • Cordia sebestena Forsk.
    • Cordia suaevolens Blume
    • Cordia suaveolens Bl.
    • Cordia subdentata Miq.
    • Cordia tomentosa Wall.
    • Ehretia glabra Roth
    • Ehretia glabra Roth ex Roem. & Schult.
    • Gerascanthus chamissonianus (Steud.) A.Borhidi
    • Gerascanthus fulvosus (Wight) A.Borhidi
    • Gerascanthus griffithii (C.B.Cl.) A.Borhidi
    • Gerascanthus latifolia (Cham.) M.Kuhlm. & Mattos
    • Gerascanthus latifolius (Cham.) A.Borhidi
    • Gerascanthus myxus (L.) A.Borhidi
    • Gerascanthus suaveolens (Bl.) A.Borhidi
    • Lithocardium fulvosum (Wight) Kuntze
    • Lithocardium griffithii (C.B.Cl.) Kuntze
    • Lithocardium myxa Kuntze
    • Lithocardium platyphyllum (Steud.) Kuntze
    • Lithocardium suaveolens (Bl.) Kuntze
    • Lithocardium subdentatum (Miq.) Kuntze
    • Lithocardium tremulum Kuntze
    • Quarena indica (Lam.) Rafin.
    • Sebestena indica (Lam.) Rafin.
    • Sebestena myxa (L.) J.Presl
    • Sebestena officinalis Gaertn.
    • Varronia integerrima Stokes
    • Varronia sinensis Lour.
    • Vitex gomphophylla Baker
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