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Barringtonia acutangula
Also called Itchytree, Mango Pine, Hijal
In Singapore: Indian Putat, Freshwater Mangrove, Red Barringtonia, Stream Barringtonia, Indian Oak, Itchy Tree, Itchy Bush, Wild Almond, Kandu Almond (Grown in Singapore)
Barringtonia acutangula is a tropical tree or large shrub of coastal and freshwater swamp margins, grown for its showy white flowers and used medicinally and as food in parts of Asia. It is a wet-tropical species that needs warmth, humidity and consistently moist conditions.
Barringtonia acutangula is a species of plant in the family Lecythidaceae native to coastal areas from Afghanistan east to mainland Southeast Asia and south to northern Australia. It has a conservation status of least concern, and it has culinary and medicinal uses in parts of Asia. Common names include freshwater mangrove, itchytree and mango-pine.
Its bark contains potent painkillers, structurally unrelated to known opioid painkillers [1]
Also 3,3'-dimethoxy ellagic acid, dihydromyricetin, gallic acid, bartogenic acid and stigmasterol, triterpenoids, olean-18-en-3beta-O-E-coumaroyl ester and olean-18-en-3beta-O-Z-coumaroyl ester 12, 20(29)-lupadien-3-o
It is native to the following regions as defined in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions:
Sea putat · Corned Beef Wood · Cutnut · Barringtonia macrostachya · Freshwater mangrove
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Barringtonia acutangula by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
