Medicinal plant details
Ficus racemosaL.
(Udumbara)
| Common name | Udumbara |
| Habit | Tree |
| Habitat | It is found in wet areas, beside streams, on the sides of the ravines, and occasionally almost gregariously, on rocky slopes over the majority of India. It is often cultivated in India |
| Parts used | Fruit |
Synonyms
| Sr. No. | Synonyms |
|---|---|
| 1 | Urostigma leucocarpum Miq. |
| 2 | Urostigma lucescens Miq. |
| 3 | Covellia glomerata Miq. |
| 4 | Covellia lanceolata Miq. |
| 5 | Covellia mollis Miq. |
| 6 | Ficus acidula King |
| 7 | Ficus chittagonga Miq. |
| 8 | Ficus glomerata Roxb. |
| 9 | Ficus glomerata Blanco |
| 10 | Ficus glomerata var. chittagonga (Miq.) King |
| 11 | Ficus glomerata var. elongata King |
| 12 | Ficus glomerata var. miquelii King |
| 13 | Ficus glomerata var. mollis (Miq.) King |
| 14 | Ficus goolereea Roxb. |
| 15 | Ficus henrici King |
| 16 | Ficus lanceolata Buch.-Ham. ex Roxb. |
| 17 | Ficus leucocarpa Miq. |
| 18 | Ficus lucescens Blume |
| 19 | Ficus mollis Miq. |
| 20 | Ficus racemosa var. elongata (King) M.F.Barrett |
| 21 | Ficus racemosa var. miquelii (King) Corner |
| 22 | Ficus racemosa var. mollis (Miq.) M.F.Barrett |
| 23 | Ficus racemosa var. vesca (Miq.) M.F.Barrett |
| 24 | Ficus semicostata F.M.Bailey |
| 25 | Ficus trichocarpa f. glabrescens Engl. |
| 26 | Ficus vesca F.Muell. ex Miq. |
| 27 | Ficus racemosa var. racemosa |
Taxonomical information
| Kingdom | Viridiplantae |
| Phylum | Streptophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Rosales |
| Family | Moraceae |
| Genus | Ficus |
| Species | Ficus racemosa L. |
Vernacular names
| Sanskrit | Jantuphala, Hemadugdha, Udumbara |
| English | Cluster Fig |
| Hindi | Gullar, Gular, Umar |
| Kannada | Atti |
| Marathi | Umbar |
| Malayalam | Atti |
| Bengali | Jogmadumur |
| Tamil | Atti |
| Telugu | Atti, Medi |
| Urdu | Goolar, Gular |
Morphology
It is a large deciduous tree grows up to an height of 30 m. It has a buttressed bole, bark that is 8 to 10 mm thick, a surface that is smooth, coarsely flaky, and fibrous, a blaze that is creamy pink, and latex that is milky. Young shoots and twigs are finely white and hairy but soon becoming glabrous. Branchlets are 1.5 to 3 mm thick, and pubescent. Leaves are enormous clusters at ancient nodes of the main trunk, dark green, 6-10 cm long, and glabrous. The receptacles are small subglobose or piriform. The main trunk or major branches produce enormous clusters of pyriform, 3-6 cm in diameter fruit receptacles that are borne in a rosette-like fashion. Initially green and resembling figs, the fruits ripen to orange, dull reddish, or dark crimson
Distribution
It is distributed in India, China, Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia and Australia
Medicinal uses
Haemophilia, unconsciousness, burning, thirst, menorrhagia and suffering from uterine fibroids
References
| 1 | Sharma, H., Pathak, R., Jain, S., Bhandari, M., Mishra, R., Reena, K., and Varshney, P. (2023). Ficus racemosa L: A review on its important medicinal uses, phytochemicals and biological activities. Journal of Population Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacology, 30, 213-227. |