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Pterocarpus marsupium
Also called East Indian kino, East Indian/malabar Kino, Indian Kino, Indian Kinotree
Malabar kino is a medium-to-large deciduous tree from India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, best known for its red gum (kino) and timber. It is a tree for warm, seasonally dry climates and is rarely grown as a garden plant outside its native range.
Pterocarpus marsupium, also known as Malabar kino or Indian kino, is a medium-to-large, deciduous tree that can grow up to 31 m (102 ft) tall. It is native to India (where it occurs in parts of the Western Ghats in the Karnataka-Kerala region and in the forests of Central India), Nepal, and Sri Lanka.
Pterocarpus marsupium contains 2,3,6-trimethyl-1,4-naphthoquinone (also called 2,3,6-trimethylnaphthalene-1,4-dione or TM-NQ), which, in vitro, is a reversible monoamine oxidase inhibitor occurring in tobacco leaf, and may cause skin, eye and respiratory irritation.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pterocarpus marsupium 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.
