Botanical Name : Saraca asoca (Roxb.) De Wilde
Family : Caesalpiniaceae
Synonyms : Saraca indica L., Jonesia asoca Roxb.
Local Name : Odia : Ashoka English: Ashok Hindi : Ashok Telugu : Kankeli, Asokamu, Vanjulamu
Tamil : Asogam Kannada : Husangid-ba, Usangid-ba
Habitat It is grown all over India. It occur up tothe altitude 600 meters. It is also cultivated in many gardens because of it’s decorative orange red flowers.
Distribution India, Central and E. Himalayan, W. Peninsula, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Malaysia.
Flowering time : March-April
Fruiting time : September
Conservation Status Critically endangered
Description : Ashoka is one of the most legendary and sacred trees of India
Habit : Trees or large shrub.
Leaf : Leaves abruptly pinnate, with few pairs of leaflets.
Inflorescence : Corymbose panicles axillary or terminal. .
Flowers : yellowish to deep red, with short pedicels. Calyx tubular, lobes 4.Petals absent. Stamens usually 7, filaments long, filiform, anthers versatile, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary compressed, oblong, ovules few to more than 10; style filiform; stigma terminal, capitate.
Fruit : Legume compressed, oblong, slightly curved and oblique, leathery to rather woody.
Seed : Seeds 1–8, compressed, obovate-orbicular, ex-albuminous.
Mythological importance : The Ashoka ( Saraca asoca ) plant is one of the sacred and legendary trees of India. Buddhists, Hindus and Jains revere the tree. It is usually associated with Kamadeva, the Hindu God of love. In the Indian epic “Ramayana” there is mention of Ashoka Vatika where Hanuman had met Mata Sita and the Ashoka Vatika is nothing but the garden of Ashoka trees.
In Odisha state , on car festival of Lord Lingaraj in the month of Chaitra, the day called as
Ashokastami on which the Ashok flowers are used in the worship of Lord Lingaraj.
Saraca asoca Source
Saxsena, H.O. & Brahmam, M. (1994). The Flora of Orissa, Vol. I, pp: 401 - 402.
Swain B.K. & Dash,S.K. (2007 ) Visual guide to Wild Medicinal Plants of Orissa, pp: 42-43.
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Saraca_asoca
www.envis.frlht.org
Family : Caesalpiniaceae
Synonyms : Saraca indica L., Jonesia asoca Roxb.
Local Name : Odia : Ashoka English: Ashok Hindi : Ashok Telugu : Kankeli, Asokamu, Vanjulamu
Tamil : Asogam Kannada : Husangid-ba, Usangid-ba
Habitat It is grown all over India. It occur up tothe altitude 600 meters. It is also cultivated in many gardens because of it’s decorative orange red flowers.
Distribution India, Central and E. Himalayan, W. Peninsula, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Malaysia.
Flowering time : March-April
Fruiting time : September
Conservation Status Critically endangered
Description : Ashoka is one of the most legendary and sacred trees of India
Habit : Trees or large shrub.
Leaf : Leaves abruptly pinnate, with few pairs of leaflets.
Inflorescence : Corymbose panicles axillary or terminal. .
Flowers : yellowish to deep red, with short pedicels. Calyx tubular, lobes 4.Petals absent. Stamens usually 7, filaments long, filiform, anthers versatile, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary compressed, oblong, ovules few to more than 10; style filiform; stigma terminal, capitate.
Fruit : Legume compressed, oblong, slightly curved and oblique, leathery to rather woody.
Seed : Seeds 1–8, compressed, obovate-orbicular, ex-albuminous.
Mythological importance : The Ashoka ( Saraca asoca ) plant is one of the sacred and legendary trees of India. Buddhists, Hindus and Jains revere the tree. It is usually associated with Kamadeva, the Hindu God of love. In the Indian epic “Ramayana” there is mention of Ashoka Vatika where Hanuman had met Mata Sita and the Ashoka Vatika is nothing but the garden of Ashoka trees.
In Odisha state , on car festival of Lord Lingaraj in the month of Chaitra, the day called as
Ashokastami on which the Ashok flowers are used in the worship of Lord Lingaraj.
Saraca asoca Source
Saxsena, H.O. & Brahmam, M. (1994). The Flora of Orissa, Vol. I, pp: 401 - 402.
Swain B.K. & Dash,S.K. (2007 ) Visual guide to Wild Medicinal Plants of Orissa, pp: 42-43.
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Saraca_asoca www.envis.frlht.org
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