Diospyros kaki L.f.
Family: Ebenaceae
Synomyms: Diospyros amara Perrier, Diospyros argyi H.Lév., Diospyros bertii André, Diospyros chinensis Blume [Invalid], Diospyros costata Carrière, Diospyros kaempferi Naudin, Diospyros kaki var. aurantium André, Diospyros kaki var. domestica Makino, Diospyros kaki var. elliptica André, Diospyros kaki var. kaki, Diospyros kaki var. macrantha Hand.-Mazz., Diospyros kaki var. sahuti André, Diospyros kaki var. silvestris Makino, Diospyros lycopersicon Carrière, Diospyros mazelii E.Morren, Diospyros roxburghii Carrière, Diospyros schi-tse Bunge, Diospyros schitze Bunge, Diospyros sinensis Naudin, Diospyros sphenophylla Hiern, Diospyros trichocarpa R.H.Miao, Diospyros wieseneri Carrière, Embryopteris kaki (Thunb.) G.Don
- English: Chinese persimmon, japanese persimmon
- Afrikaans: Tamatiepruim
- Chinese: 山柿
- French: Plaqueminier
- German: Kakipflaume
- Korean: kamnamu
- Russian: churma vostočnaja
- Spanish: Caqui,
- Vietnamese: cây hông
- Arabic: كاكي
- Russian: Хурма восточная
- Chinese: 林柿
- Malayalam: കാക്കിപ്പഴം
- Indonesian: Kesemek
- Japanese: 柿,
Desctiption: Small tree, up to 15 m tall. Leaves elliptic or elliptic-ovate, 11-12 X5.3-6 cm, pubescent, acuminate; petiolate. Flowers pedicellate, pedicel 10-15 mm long. Male in 3-flowered cynics; female solitary and larger. Calyx segments oval or broadly lanceolate, pubescent. Corolla yellow-white, lobes rounded. Male flower: stamens 16-24, hairy. Female flower: staminodes 8-10; ovary 8-10-locular, style 4-parted, hairy. Berry globose, 3-7 cm. in diameter, orange to dark red, glossy and fleshy. Trees, to 27 m tall, deciduous. Young branchlets densely pubescent to glabrous, sometimes with reddish brown lenticels. Winter buds small, blackish. Petiole 0.8--2 cm; leaf blade lanceolate, elliptic, or ovate, occasionally obovate, 5--18 X 2.6--9 cm, papery, pubescent when young drying brown, adaxially often glabrescent when mature and paler with dark veinlets, base cuneate, subtruncate, or rarely cordate, apex usually acuminate, lateral veins 5--7 per side, reticulate veinlets clearly defined, flat, and dark. Male flowers small, in 3--5-flowered cymes; calyx ± as long as corolla, hairy on both sides, lobes 4; corolla white, yellowish white, or red, 6--10 mm; stamens (14--)16--24. Female flowers solitary; calyx 3 cm or more in diam., lobes 4; corolla usually yellowish white, campanulate, (0.9--)1--1.6 cm, lobes recurved and ovate; staminodes 8(--16); ovary glabrous or pubescent. Fruiting calyx 3--4 cm in diam. Berries yellow to orange, flattened globose to ovoid but usually globose, 2--8.5 cm in diam., 8-locular, glabrescent. Seeds dark brown.
Ripe fruit prescribed as a stomachic; persistent calyx used to treat cough, hiccups. The juice extracted from unripe fruit employed in hypertension. [CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants]
In China, the juice expressed from the unripe fruits is drunk to lower blood pressure, check hemorrhage, relieve the bowels of costive- ness and treat typhus. The bark and wood are used to heal wounds and ulcers. A decoction of the leaves is drunk to treat fever. [Medicinal Plants: Drugs For The Future? ]
An astringent, styptic, antitussive, laxative, nutritive, stomachic; for constipation, hemorrhoids, diarrhea, bronchial complaints, dry cough, hypertension [Taiwanese Native Medicinal Plants: Phytopharmacology and Therapeutic Values]
In China, the juice expressed from the unripe fruits is drunk to lower blood pressure, check hemorrhage, relieve the bowels of costive- ness and treat typhus. The bark and wood are used to heal wounds and ulcers. A decoction of the leaves is drunk to treat fever. [Medicinal Plants: Drugs For The Future? ]
An astringent, styptic, antitussive, laxative, nutritive, stomachic; for constipation, hemorrhoids, diarrhea, bronchial complaints, dry cough, hypertension [Taiwanese Native Medicinal Plants: Phytopharmacology and Therapeutic Values]
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