Commiphora caudata, Kilimaram, Kizhingil, Kizhuvam, Hill mango, കിളിമരം, കിഴിഞ്ഞിൽ, കിഴുവം

Family: Burseraceae
Vernacular names: Kilimaram, Kizhingil, Kizhuvam, കിളിമരം, കിഴിഞ്ഞിൽ, കിഴുവം (Malayalam), Hill mango (English), Ilkata (Sanskrit), Kiluvai, Pachikiluvai (Tamil)
Distribution: India and Sri Lanka
Description: Small trees, bark green with reddish-brown stripes, peeling off in thin scales. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate, estipulate. Flowers polygamous, small, greenish-yellow, in lax dichotomous axillary panicles. Fruit a drupe, globose or ellipsoid, mesocarp yellow, rarely orange, pyrenes ovoid; seeds solitary.
Habit: Tree
Habitat: Deciduous forests, also grown in the plains
Flowering & Fruiting: March-October

Parts used: Root and leaves
Properties & Uses: Root and leaves are used to treat diabetes, strangury, fever and rheumatalgia. Fruit shows the stomachic properties. The boiled bark made into paste is applied externally to promote healing of bone fracture. The juice from stem is used as an eye drop to cure conjunctiva.
Systems of Medicines: Ayurveda, Folk,
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