Calophyllum inophyllum

Calophyllum inophyllum common names:

 Sultan Champa, 

 Alexandrian laurel, 

ball tree, 

 beauty leaf, 

domba oil tree, 

Indian laurel,

 oil nut tree, 

pinnay oil tree, 

red poon etc 

 Calophyllaceae, is a beautiful large evergreen tree native to southern coastal India. 

The flowers have snow-white petals with a thick center of yellow stamens. 

The fragrant flowers have been prized as an adornment and as a perfume. 

The mature fruit is poisonous enough to use as rat bait.

 The seeds yield a thick, dark green tamanu oil for medicinal use or hair grease. 

The nuts are dried before cracking, after which the oil-laden kernel is removed and further dried. 

The first neoflavone isolated from natural sources was calophyllolide from C. inophyllum seeds.

Surendra Parihar