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    Cobra saffron, with the botanical name Mesua ferrea L., is the state flower of Tripura. It is an evergreen tree with fragrant white flowers and golden yellow anthers. The tree is commonly found in forests across India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand. Its wood and other parts have various traditional and economic uses, including construction, tools, and medicine to treat coughs, indigestion, and skin ailments. The cobra saffron thrives in humid, hilly areas with heavy rainfall.

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    Cobra saffron, with the botanical name Mesua ferrea L., is the state flower of Tripura. It is an evergreen tree with fragrant white flowers and golden yellow anthers. The tree is commonly found in forests across India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand. Its wood and other parts have various traditional and economic uses, including construction, tools, and medicine to treat coughs, indigestion, and skin ailments. The cobra saffron thrives in humid, hilly areas with heavy rainfall.

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    Cobra saffron, with the botanical name Mesua ferrea L., is the state flower of Tripura. It is an evergreen tree with fragrant white flowers and golden yellow anthers. The tree is commonly found in forests across India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand. Its wood and other parts have various traditional and economic uses, including construction, tools, and medicine to treat coughs, indigestion, and skin ailments. The cobra saffron thrives in humid, hilly areas with heavy rainfall.

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    TRIPURA

    State Flower: Cobra Safrrron


    Botanical Name: Mesua ferrea L.
    Family: Clusiaceae.
    Vernacular Names: Nahor (Assamese); Ceylon Ironwood, Indian Rose Chestnut (English); Nag Champa,
    Nagkesar (Hindi); Dieng-ngai (Khasi); Herse (Lushai); Vainavu (Malayalam); Nageshor, Uthau (Manipuri);
    Thorlachampa (Marathi); Ngai-ching (Naga); Tadinangu (Tamil); Narmishka (Urdu).
    Etymology: Specific epithet is derived from Latin word 'ferrea' means iron, attributed to its heavy hardwood.
    Description: An evergreen, middle-sized
    handsome tree with a dense conical crown;
    bark smooth and grey but generally warty in
    young trees. Leaves opposite-decussate,
    lanceolate or narrowly elliptic-oblong,
    rounded at base, entire at margins, bluntly
    long-acuminate, 6.5 – 18 × 1.5 – 5 cm,
    purple-brown when young. Flowers solitary,
    terminal, 3.8 – 7.5 cm across, very fragrant.
    Sepals 4, suborbicular, 1.2 – 1.5 cm long,
    imbricate, persistent. Petals 4, obovate or
    obcordate, pure white, very finely brown or
    purple-veined. Stamens very many; filaments
    very slender; anthers linear, 2.5 – 5 mm long,
    golden yellow. Ovary ovoid; style long;
    stigma peltate. Fruits a capsule, ovoid,
    pointed, 3 – 4 cm across, 1 – 4- seeded;
    seeds oily pale-yellow; cotyledons fleshy.
    Flowering & Fruiting: April – May and August
    – October.
    Range of Distribution: India, Indonesia,
    Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Sri
    Lanka and Thailand.
    Economic Importance: It is used in making
    railway sleepers, bridges, posts, beam poles,
    musical instruments, gun-stock, and in the boat
    building, construction work. The oleoresin
    Mesua ferrea L. obtained from the tree may be used for
    varnish. The seeds contain fatty oil which has
    been found excellent for soap-making. Strung with thin strip of bamboo they are often used as candles which
    burn steadily with reddish light but give a heavy smoke. Fruits are edible.
    Traditional Knowledge: The wood is used for making large a wooden pestle for pounding rice and the dark-
    red wood is used for house posts and tool-handles.
    Medicinal Uses: The stamens yield the drug Nagakesar. Seeds and heartwood have anti-inflammatory
    properties. Volatile oil from the flowers showed antibacterial activities and it is used to cure cough and
    indigestion. The oil from the seeds shows antifungal activity against a number of pathogenic fungi and is used as
    cure for skin ailments.
    Note: This arboreal species is common and generally gregarious in almost all evergreen forests, where the
    ground is more or less hilly. It thrives best in a locality with heavy rainfall and humid atmosphere, much cultivated
    in gardens and avenues. The plant acts as sink for dust pollutants. It can be identified by its conspicuous,
    fragrant, white flowers with golden yellow anthers.

    K. Pagag & S.K. Singh


    Botanical Survey of India, Eastern Regional Centre, Shillong.

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