Botanical name- Memecylon umbellatum
Family name:-MELASTOMACEAE
English name- Ironwood
Sinhala name:- Korakaha
Tamil name-kaca
Sanskirt name:-anjan
Description:-
Large shrubs. Leaves 2.5-5 x 1.5-3 cm, ovate-oblong or elliptic, base cuneate, apex obtuse to rounded, coriaceous, drying yellowish green; petiole c. 5 mm long. Umbels compact, 1.5-3 cm across, sessile or very short peduncled, many-flowered; flowers subsessile. Calyx 2-3 mm wide, pale bluish, truncate or shallowly 4-lobed. Petals blue, elliptic-ovate to orbicular. Filaments blue; anthers c. 1.5 mm long. Style blue. Berry c. 7 mm across, globose, initially yellowish green; mature fruit bluish black.
Status:-Native
Edible parts:-Young leaves
Grows in-Sri Lanka,
India, the Andaman islands and the coastal region of the Deccan.
Ayurvedic usage
Treatment for:-Irregular menstruation, Menstrul pain
Propagation -Seeds