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Crataegus songarica K. Koch
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- Local Name:
- Jand Proar.
- Synonym:
- Crataegus oxycantha L.
- Habit & Habitat:
- A deciduous spiny tree up to 8-10 m tall, found in temperate zone.
- Plant Description:
- Leaves simple, ovate or rhombic in outline, deeply and sharply lobed. Inflorescence a corymb, 3-4 cm in diameter, many-flowered. Flower actinomorphic, white.Sepals-5,triangular.Petals-5, round. Fruit a pome, fleshy, dark red, globose.
- Flowering and Fruiting:
- April-August.
- Harvesting Time:
- May-October.
- Medicinal Value:
- Leaves, flowers and haws are cardiac and circulating tonic, treating heart weakness caused by kidney disease, thickening tissues, artery spasm and irregular heart beat. [5] Take Hawthorn in palpitations, atherosclerosis, angina, hypertension and nervousness.[9] Locally a tea has been introduced in Poonch Area.
- Part Used:
- Bark, fruit, flower and leaf.
- Occurrence:
- Uncommon.
- Future Perspective:
- Conservation, Cultivation, Herbal Pharmacy, Allopathic Pharmacy.
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