indian butter tree

  Diploknema butyracea  ( Nepali :चिउरी, Chiuri), the  Indian butter tree , [1]  is a multi purpose tree. Fat is extracted from the seeds and named chiuri ghee or phulwara butter. D. butyracea is useful for block planting and also to be grown in the ravines of hills. The latex yielding plant such as D. butyracea suits to different edapho climatic conditions and thus does not compete with the traditional crops. It is a large tree of family Sapotaceae, flowers during cold season and fruit ripens in June–July. It commonly occurs in the sub Himalayan tract between 300-1500m from sea level. The chiuri tree has been utilised for many uses by rural households in Nepal. Ghee is used in daily cooking, as fuel for lamps, and body lotion; the fruit is eaten fresh and use for alcohol distillation, oil-cakes are utilised as manure, and the tree itself is used as firewood, etc. It has significant cultural and livelihood associations with the Chepang community ( Nepali :चेपांग) of ...

Common name:  Indian Butter Tree •  Hindi : फलवारा Phalwara, फुलवारा Phulvara, फुलवा Phulwa •  Kannada : ಬೆಣ್ಣೆ ಮರ Benne Mara •  Sanskrit : मधुका Madhuka, मधुकापुष्पि Madhukapuspi Botanical name:   Diploknema butyracea      Family:   Sapotaceae  (Mahua family) Synonyms:  Bassia butyracea, Aesandra butyracea, Madhuca butyracea Indian Butter Tree is a tree up to 25 m tall. Branchlets are thick, round, channeled, and with warts, yellowish brown or brown velvety to hairless. Stipules are lanceshaped, about 5 mm, brown to pale yellow pubescent, falling off early. Leaves are elliptic-oblong, ovate, or ovate-oblong, 17-35 X 8-17 cm, leathery, yellowish-brown to brown velvety, base wedge- shaped, tip blunt to blunt with a narrow point. Flowers are borne in clusters in leaf axils. Flower stalks are 2-4.5 cm long, up to 5 cm in fruit. Sepals are 4 or 5 or 6, ovate, 0.9-1.5 X 0.6-1 cm. Flowers are 1.5-2 cm, petals 8-10, oblong, ovate, or ...