Uses

ID Crop ID Part Use Category Notes Metadata ID
512 Thingam Wood Oil (Fuel) The wood is an excellent fuel. 7,833
513 White Dammar Bark Medicinal It is a multipurpose plant which has economic and medicinal importance. (1) Resin from V. indica is known as white ‘dammar’. Used for chronic bronchitis, piles, skin eruptions, ringworm, scrofula, tubercular glands, ulcers, wounds, boils; urinary discharges; amenorrhoea; gonorrhoea and syphilis. 7,834
514 White Dammar Bark Industrial Resin from V. indica is known as white ‘dammar’. Apart from medicinal uses, it has long been used as incense, and for making varnishes. It is obtained by cutting notches in the tree when it exudes and gradually hardens. 7,834
515 Engkabang Jantong Wood Industrial The timber is used as a light red meranti. Being one of the lightest in this trade group it is sometimes regarded as a white meranti or traded separately as "kawang jantong". S. macrophylla is one of the most important sources of illipe nuts. 7,842
516 Sundew Whole Medicinal Used as an antibiotic to combat bacteria infections: Streptococcus, Staphylococcus, and Pneumococcus. It is also effective in respiratory relief of afflictions such as bronchitis, whooping cough, and asthma. There has been some discussion as to its effectiveness in treatment of warts and corns. 7,844
517 African Ebony Wood Industrial The wood is used for posts in house construction, flooring, joinery, furniture, ship building, vehicle bodies, musical instruments such as drums, household utensils such as cups, spoons, pestles and mortars, tool handles, walking sticks, combs, agricultural implements such as ploughs, boxes, carvings and turnery. The wood is also used as firewood, and is valued for charcoal production. 7,847
518 African Ebony Fruit Food The fruit is sweet but acidulous with a slight lemon-like taste. It is often eaten raw when fully ripe, particularly by children, but sometimes also dried and kept for later use when food is scarce at the end of the dry season. They can be ground into a flour, which is sometimes an ingredient of porridge. 7,847
519 African Ebony Fruit Beverages The fruits are also used in the production of fruit juice and alcoholic drinks. 7,847
520 African Ebony Leaf Food The leaves are occasionally eaten as vegetable, and the foliage is browsed by livestock. 7,847
521 African Ebony Leaf Feed (Forage/Fodder) The leaves are occasionally eaten as vegetable, and the foliage is browsed by livestock. 7,847
523 African Ebony Bark Industrial The gum from the bark is used to mend broken pottery, and fruit pulp to glaze and varnish pottery. 7,847
524 African Ebony Whole Ornamental Diospyros mespiliformis is planted for re-afforestation, as ornamental shade tree and as windbreak. 7,847
525 African Ebony Whole Medicinal Various parts of the tree are used in traditional medicine. 7,847
526 Black Sapote Fruit Food The fruits are eaten when fully ripe and soft. The pulp, which is contained within a thin skin, is soft, sweet, smooth, and pale brown in colour. 7,874
527 Black Sapote Wood Industrial The wood is yellowish to deep-yellow with black markings near the heart of old trunks; it is compact and suitable for cabinetwork, but is little used. 7,874
528 Black Sapote Bark Medicinal Various preparations of bark and leaves have been used medicinally against fever and skin disease. 7,874
529 Malabar Ebony Wood Industrial Wood occasionally used for timber. 7,889
530 Malabar Ebony Fruit Food Ripe fruit eaten raw, and are reportedly tasty or astringent. 7,889
531 Malabar Ebony Bark Medicinal Bark and seeds used in medicine, for treating ulcers and wounds, and as a gargle for sore throats. 7,889
532 Tendu Wood Industrial Heartwood used as ebony, black, often streaked with purple or brown bands; sapwood a good timber; wood a good fuelwood 7,891