Melina is a species with broad natural distribution in southeast asia, and grows form sea level to. This reflected the fact that many tree planters considered gmelina to be a very promising species due to ease and cheapness of establishment, rapid early growth, expectations of early returns and promising wood. Gambhari gmelina arborea information, medicinal uses and. Gmelina arborea is known as kashmari as it grows in kashmir, kashmari, kashmarya, kasmari, bhadraparni, gambhari, candahar tree, coomb tree, cashmeri teak, coomb teak, and white teak. Thus, it has the potential to disrupt successional processes in areas where it is invading and outcompete native vegetation iucn, 20. Details about these propagation methods are presented. The genus gmelina includes 38 species of trees occurring in tropical asia, australia. The present article is aimed to provide information on recent advances and. It is thus found from pakistan in the west throughout india, nepal, bangladesh, sri lanka. There is interest at both the government and farmer. This tree can be propagated by seedlings, rooted cuttings, and grafting. Gmelina arborea is a multipurpose tree species native to asia.
The genus gmelina includes 38 species of trees occurring in tropical asia, australia and new guinea flora of china editorial committee, 2016. Gmelina arborea a viable species for smallholder tree farming in indonesia. Pdf gmelina arborea a viable species for smallholder tree. Hortus bengalensis, or a catalogue of the plants growing in the hounourable east india companys botanicl garden at calcutta. Gambhari gmelina arborea information, medicinal uses and more gambhari is a medicinal tree mentioned in all classical texts of ayurveda. Gmelina is related to the large genus vitex, which also includes several timber trees. Gmelina arborea wikispecies, free species directory.
This tree is native to asia and found in india, bangladesh, pakistan, myanmar, sri lanka, thailand, cambodia and vietnam. At the present time, gmelina is the most widely planted tree species in costa rica. Pdf across indonesia there are millions of hectares of degraded land in need of rehabilitation. Multipurpose tree species dendrocalamus strictus depterocarpus macrocarpus diospyros melanoxylon emblica officinalis eucalyptus citriodora eucalyptus globulus eucalyptus tereticomis ficus glomerata ficus religiosa gmelina arborea grevillea robusta grewia optiva grewia asiatica hardwickia binata loloptelea integrifolia juglans regia kedia. Production and regression models for biomass and carbon. Learn about its medicinal uses, botanical details and scientific classification. Small tree planting programs with limited budgets tend to propagate by seedlings, and larger or industrial plantation projects with breeding programs propagate by rooted cuttings. Gmelina arborea food and agriculture organization of the united. The purpose of these papers is to provide information on ongoing activities. General information gmelina is a fastgrowing, unarmed, moderately sized to large deciduous tree with a wide spreading canopy with numerous branches forming a large shady crown. More than 60 gmelina arborea provenance trials were established in the. Germplasm resources information network grin online database. Information technologies transportation industrial engineering environmental engineering. The family lamiaceae comprises around 236 genera and 7173 species distributed worldwide stevens, 2012.
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