saraca asoca
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Ashoka Tree Saraca asoca
Information sourcesFlowers of India Website
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saraca_asocahttp://www.sssbiotic.com/product/sar
aca.aspPhotography Locations
http://cenvironment.blogspot.com/2011/05/wood-pulp-is-used-as-food-
additive.html
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Ashoka Tree Saraca asoca
Distribution: India, Burma and Malaya
Heights: 10-15 m tall
Evergreen
Leaf shape: oblong
Pronunciation:
Saraca (sar-AK-a)
indica (IN-dih-kuh)
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Ashoka Tree Saraca asoca
Common name:
Sita Ashok, Sorrowless tree
Hindi: Sita Ashok,
Ashok
Gujarati: Ashopalava
Kannada: Achenge
Malayalam: Hemapushpam
Marathi: Jasundi
Tamil: Asogam
Telugu: Asokamu
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Confederation of Indian IndustryAshoka is one of the most legendary and sacred trees of India
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The ashoka tree is closely associated with
the Yakshi mythological beings.
One of the recurring elements in Indian
art, often found at gates of Buddhist and
Hindu temples, is the sculpture of a Yakshi
with her foot on the trunk and her hands
holding the branch of a flowering ashoka
tree.
As an artistic element, often the tree and
the Yakshi are subject to heavy stylization.
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Mythology
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In Mahkvya, or Indian
epic poetry, the ashoka
tree is mentioned in the
Ramayana in reference to
the Ashoka Vatika (garden
of Ashoka trees) where
Hanuman first meets Sita.
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Yakshis under ashoka trees were also
important in early Buddhist
monuments as a decorative element
and are found in many ancient
Buddhist archaeological sites.
The yakshi under the ashoka tree
became a standard decorative
element of Hindu Indian sculpture
and was integrated into Indian
temple architecture as salabhanjikaAshoka Tree
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Mythology
Ashoka tree is worshipped in
Chaitra, the first month of the
Hindu Calendar.
It is also associated with
Kamadeva, the Hindu god of
Love, who included an Ashoka
blossom among the five flowers
in his quiver
Ashoka TreeSaraca asoca
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Confederation of Indian IndustryAshok is a Sanskrit word meaning without grief or that which gives no grief
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Ashoka tree produces large bunch of sweet smelling flowers throughout the year; profuse flowering occurs from February to May
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Each bunch consists of a lot of small flowers that are shaped like long-tubes which open out into four oval lobes
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The flowers look like the flowers of Ixora
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Yellow when young, they become orange then crimson with age and from the effect of the sun's rays
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Confederation of Indian IndustryIn strong contrast to these fiery blooms is the deep-green, shiny foliage.
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The bark is dark brown or grey or almost black with warty surface
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Crushed flowers and leaves are rubbed on the skin to get relief from skin diseases
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The flowers are used in cases
like burning sensation,
dysentery, hyperdypsia, scabies
in children and inflammation.
The seeds are strengthening and
the ash of plant is good for
external application in rheum-
arthritis
In general Saraca asoca is
considered as best female tonic
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A popular tree simply referred to, and also known as Ashoka tree of the unrelated genus Polyalthia longifolia(false Ashoka tree)
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Ashoka Tree Saraca asoca