Kydia Calycina
Family : Malvaceae
Common Name : Kydia
English Name : Kydia
Hindi Name : Bharanga, Barangi
Telugu Name : Bolka
Bengali Name : Pola
Tree Characteristics :
Kydia is a small to medium sized deciduous tree, growing up to 20 m tall. Leaves 3-12.5 cm long, 4-16.5 cm broad, commonly 7 nerved, truncate-subcordate at base, entire or 3-5 angled, not or slightly denticulate, acute-obtuse, dark green and less hairy above, greyish below. Fruit is a capsule, small and globose.
Nursery:
32,000 to 1,58,000 seeds/ kg. Capsules are dried in cloth bags under the sun. By rubbing the capsules, seeds are extracted by hand and cleaned by winnowing. Seeds retain viability for about six months. Cold water soaking for 24 hrs. Germination 7%; Germination period is 28 to 71 days. Due to high seed infertility seeds are sown in nursery beds or germination trays thickly and watered regularly. Seedlings are potted in polythene bags of size 20x10 cm filled with appropriate potting mixture
Economic Uses :
Ø Fibre from the bark is used to make coarse ropes.
Ø A mucilaginous material obtained from the stems is used to clarify sugar
Ø The leaves are applied as paste in body pain. It is also chewed in the formation of saliva. Locally, its poultice is used for skin diseases
Ø The tree is grown for ornamental and has particularly attractive flower in September-November. The tree is valued for the leaves which are lopped for fodder. Wood is used for small timbers and fuel wood
The honey will be thick and sweet. Leaves are eaten by the elephant, sambar deer and bison. Used for fire wood.
