Tamarindus indica, Imli Plant

Description

Add a tropical flair to your garden by growing this beautiful, long-live tamarind tree. These trees feature short, stout trunks topped by bushy wide-spread crowns with arching branches.  Imli Plant blooms fragrant flowers with feathery foliage varying from red-veined cream to pale yellow colors, hanging in small clusters.

The fruits of the plant are quite famous and are ‘kind of’ fattish, beanlike, bulged pods and irregularly curved. The fruits have a sweet and sour taste and are used in food, beverages, and traditional medicines.

Imli Plant is not only known for its fruits and flowers, but it also has many medicinal virtues too.   It grows ferny, even-pinnate, compounded leaves with light green leaflets that are about 2cm long. These plants reach a maximum height of 18 inches and don’t require much care and maintenance to thrive.

Tamarindus indica Special Features

• The plant bears fruits that have a sweet and sour taste with a brownish pulp
• This plant also has many medicinal properties.
• The plant blooms pale yellow flowers hanging in small clusters.
• It is a low maintenance plant.

Tamarindus indica Uses

Ornamental Use

• It is used in the tropics and subtropics as an ornamental plant. 

Medicinal Properties

• The leaves of the plant have a cooling effect.
• The pulp of the fruit is used in the treatment of flatulence, bilious vomiting, and indigestion.
• The pulp of the tree is rich in Vitamin C that is important in preventing and curing scurvy.
• Tamarind is also used to treat constipation.
• It is also used for treating fevers, dysentery, and burns.
• The pulp is applied on inflammations and is gargled to cure sore throat.

Culinary Uses

• Tamarindus indica is a common ingredient in the cuisines of Central America and Mexico.

Miscellaneous Uses

• The wood of Tamarindus indica is used in carentary.