Terminalia catappa L.
- Family: Combretaceae
- Vernacular names: Badam, Thalli-thenga, ബദാം, തല്ലിത്തേങ്ങ (Malayalam), Indian almond tree (English), Inguda (Sanskrit), Jangli badam (Hindi), Nattuvadumai (Tamil)
- Distribution: Malaysia to North Australia and Polynesia, commonly planted in the tropics
- Description: Trees, to 25 m high, crown spreading, often buttressed; branchlets with prominent leaf scars. Leaves simple, alternate, densely clustered at the tip of branchlets, 13-30 x 6-20 cm, obovate, orbicular-obovate, base cuneate, acute or attenuate, apex round, obtuse, retuse or apiculate, puberulent beneath, coriaceous. Flowers polygamous, white, or yellowish-green, in axillary simple, rusty pubescent racemes 8-20 cm long. Calyx tube 3-5 x 1-1.3 mm, pubescent, cupular; teeth 5, triangular or ovate, 1-2 x 1.5-2 mm, acute, glabrous. Petals absent. Stamens 10. Ovary inferior, 1-celled, ovule pendulous. Fruits a drupe, 3-7 x 2.5-4.5 cm, broadly ellipsoid to ovoid, laterally compressed, inflated, brown or reddish-brown, glabrous, glossy, mesocarp fibrous; seed 1.
- Habit: Tree
- Habitat: Grown as ornamental tree
- Flowering & Fruiting: March-January
- Parts used: Leaves
- Properties & Uses: A plaster of leaves is used to treat scabies, leprosy wounds and other skin diseases. Its traditional use includes the treatment of diarrhea and fever.
- Systems of Medicines: Folk,
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