Toona ciliata M.Roem.

• Family: Meliaceae
• Vernacular names: Chandanavembu,, ചന്ദനവേമ്പ് (Malayalam), Indian mahogany (English), Tunah (Sanskrit), Tunumaram (Tamil)
• Distribution: Indo-Myanmar; cultivated in Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Africa and the Hawaiian Islands
• Description: Large trees; bark thick, reddish-brown, rough, exfoliating in large flakes. Leaves paripinnate, alternate, clustered at the tips of branchlets, estipulate. Flowers bisexual, white, in terminal or axillary drooping panicles. Fruit a capsule, 5-valved; seeds many, oblong, thin, winged at both ends.
• Habit: Tree
• Habitat: Semi-evergreen and evergreen forests
• Flowering & Fruiting: February-May

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• Parts used: Bark
• Properties & Uses: Bark is aphrodisiac, expectorant. Bark is used to treat headache, fever, itching, biliousness, scabies, chronic infantile dysentery, cough and ulcers.
• Systems of Medicines: Folk,
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