Mimusops elengi

In Sinhalese Munamal,in English Bullet wood tree, in Malay Tanjong. Medium size big tree growing on tropical forests in South Asia,South east Asia & Northern Australia. Leaves are glossy, dark green, oval shaped, 5-14 cm long and 2.5-6 cm wide. Flowers are cream. hairy and scented.Bark is dark brownish black or grayish black caller thick bark.Hight is 30 - 60 ft tall & 1 meter circumference.

The bark, flowers, fruits and seeds are astringent, cooling, anthelmintic, tonic, and febrifuge. It is mainly used in dental ailments like bleeding gum's, pyorrhea, dental caries and loose teeth.

Extract of flowers used against heart diseases, leucorrhoea, menorrhagia and act as antiduretic in polyuria and antitoxin. The snuff made from the dried and powdered flowers used in a disease called Ahwa in which strong fever, headache and pain in the neck, shoulders and other parts of the body occurs.

Ripened fruits facilitates in burning urination. The ripe fruit pounded and mixed with water is given to promote delivery in childbirth. Powder of dried flowers is a brain tonic and useful as a snuff to relieve cephalalgia. Decoration of bark is used to wash the wounds.

Other uses

• The edible fruit is softly hairy becoming smooth, ovoid, bright red-orange when ripe.

• Mimusops elengi wood is luxurious wood.It is extremely hard,strong & tough timber.heart wood is sharply defined from sapwood.Rich deep red in caller.Works easily & takes beautiful polish.Weight is 63 lbs per cubic foot.

the stem bark is dark gry in colour with striations & few cracks on the surface.