Botanical name:-Catunaregum spinosa
Family name:-RUBIACEAE
English name :-Mountain pomegranate
Sinhala name:_Kukurummuwan
Tamil name :-madukarei, pungarei
Sanskirt name:-
Description:-Shrub up to 3.0m height with strong straight spines, horizontal rigid branches and dark brown or grey rough scaly bark; leaves simple , usually fascicled on the suppressed branches, obovated, obtuse, wrinkled , shining or more or less pubescent above and on nerves beneath , main nerves 6-10 pairs; flowers at first white, later turning yellow , fragrant, solitary or 2-3 together at the end of short leaf-bearing branchlets; fruit globose or broadly ovoid , smooth or obscurely longitudinally ribbed barriers,yellow when ripe , crowned with the large calyx limb; seeds many angularembedded in the pulp.
Status:-Native
Edible parts:-None
Distribution:-Sri Lanka,India
Ayurvedic usag:
Treatment for:-Snake bite poisoning, Diarrhoea, Fever, Fish poisoning, Biliousness, Bruises
Parts used to make medicine:-Fruit
Propagation:-Seeds