Plants around Godrej Mangroves

Sphagneticola trilobata WedeliaSouth American perennial evergreen creeper with three-lobed leaves and bright yellow flowers that attract many butterfly species and used as popular ground cover in landscaping.

Small plant with hairy stems, toothed-edged leaves and yellow flowers. Favorite of

butterflies.

Hairy vine with purplish stem, ovate leaves with narrow pointed tip, white, bell shaped flowers. Dried root-bark used as laxative, purgative and to cure rheumatism and paralysis.

Tridax procumbens Coat Button

Operculina turpethum Woody Rose

Lantana camara Lantana Evergreen, invasive, hairy tropical shrub with yellow, orange, purple, pink flowers in combinations. Magnet for butterflies but harmful for native plants.

Large shrub with oval leaves with milky latex, crown of waxy lavender flowers and fruit with cotton for seed

disperal. The plant is host to many butterflies and insects. Used in treating skin, digestive, respiratory,

circulatory and neurological disorders.

Large evergreen shrub with shiny leathery leaves, and white or red berries devoured by many bird species. Roots used in toothpaste giving the plant its name.

Calotropis gigantea Crown Flower

Salvadora persica Meswak

Mucuna pruriens Common CowitchAnnual, climbing vine with trifoliate leaves, smaller unequal leflets, dark purple, drooping flowers and green-brown hairy, curved fruits that cause itch tskin. Fruits used for protein supply, in parkinsons disease and to produce growth hormone.

Vine with rounded, angled, hairy leaves, yellow flowers, cylindrical and ribbed fruits. Fuits can be used as vegetable, fibrous interior of fruits used as filters

and scrubbers.

Aquatic, perennial herb with hairy, unbranched stem and oppositely placed blue-purple flowers. Used in Ayurveda vfor arious ailments like rheumatism, inflammation, jaundice, hepatic obstruction, pain.

Luffa acutangula Ribbed Sponge Gourd

Hygrophila auriculata Marsh Barbel

Ziziphus mauritiana BerSmall subtropical tree with rough and cracked bark, ovate leaves, yellowish flowers and green berries that turn orange when ripe. Used for improving muscular strength, weight, preventing liver and bladder diseases and stress ulcers, reducing constipation.

Deciduous, indigenous tree with shiny, green leaves and white purple pink flowers. Fruit is Karanji

shaped of which oil is used in medicines and to contain wood rotting, metal rusting.

Large evergreen tree with heart-shaped leaves, cup-shaped yellow flowers and apple-shaped green fruits. Bark used in skin diseases, leaves in swollen joints, roots in tonic.

Scrubby North American tree with small compound leaves, yellowish white ball-like flowers and

flat pods. Leaves used as fodder but this fast-growing tree invasive species isn't

suitable for forests.

Pongamia pinnata Karanj

Leucaena leucocephala Subabhul / Wild Tamarind

Thespecia populnea Umbrella / Indian Tulip Tree

Ficus religiosa PeepalLarge indigenous, deciduous tree with numerous roots, branches and shiny heart-shaped leaf with elongated tip. Leaves pink when young. Sacred tree with spiritual and religious importance.

Large indigenous with shoots landing on ground forming new trees. Bunch of flowers look like hollow fruit

which is eaten by numerous insects, animals and humans. Every tree part is medicinal, used as tonic,

astringent,cooling and diuretic properties in Ayurveda.

Indigenous deciduous tree with hard reddish wood, long golden yellow inflorescence and brown cylindrical pods. The pods are used as laxativeand to cure fissures, piles in Ayurveda.

An indigenous, deciduous, medium-sized treewith crooked, rough, grey and multi-branched bark,

compound leaves with three leaflets and orange, curved flowers used to make dye and color.

Ficus bengalensis Banyan

Butea monosperma Flame of the Forest

Cassia stula Indian Laburnum

Pithecellobium dulce Madras ThornLarge, near-evergreen tree with broad crown, short trunk, small and compound leaves with two spines at their base, small white-greenish spherical flowers and green-brown to pinkish irregular, flat pods favored by many birds.

South American medium-sized tree with branches rising up from bark with many lenticel glands,

bright pink to lilac flowers with white tinge and two-valved long pods. Leaves add rich manure to soil and brak used as rat poison.

Native of Sri Lanka/Andaman/Malaysia, the tree has spreading crown of many branches with compound, feathery leaves, abundant yellow flowers and copper-colored pods. Wood used as timber.

Tropical American small tree with lanceolate leaves in whorls, yellow flowers and small fruits. Oleander is used

for heart conditions, asthma, epilepsy, cancer, painful menstrual periods, leprosy, malaria,

ringworm, indigestion, and venereal disease.

Gliricidia sepium Ratkiller Tree

Thevetia peruviana Yellow Oleander

Peltophorum pterocarpum Copperpod

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Acacia auriculiformis  Australian AcaciaAn invasive tall, compact, many stemmed tree with blade-like, curved leaves, long yellow inflorescence and small fruits with flat seeds. Used for lac cultivation in India but detrimental to forests.

Evergreen tree with short, straight trunk, fissured scaly bark, asymetric leaflets with serrated margins, white, fragrant flowers and roundish berries. Leaves are anthelmintic, antifungal, antidiabetic, antibacterial, antiviral, contraceptive and sedative.

Tree with large, leathery, oval leaves that turn red before they fall, horizontal branches growing in

circles on stem. Nuts are edible, taste like almonds and are eaten. Favorite of parakeets.

Terminalia catappa Indian Almond

Azadirachta indica Neem

Caesalpinia pulcherrima Peacock FlowerEvergreen large shrub with yellow-orange flowers that attract many butterflies for nectar.

Indigenous deciduous tree with smooth pale grey bark. Large bright yellow flowers, oval brown fruits that

release seeds embedded in cotton.

Small sturdy invasive thorny tree with small leaflets, greenish-yellow flowers and pods that are used to make flour, gruels and wine.

Cochlospermum religiosum Yellow Silk Cotton

Prosopis juliora Algaroba

Acacia nilotica BaboolMedium tree with drooping branches, brown black grooved bark, compund leaves and yellow fluffy flowers. The tree is anti-microbial and used in medicines of gastro-intestinal infections, ulcers.

Small indigenous tree with dark green shiny deeply veined large leaves, small and white flowers, and small football like fruits. Fruits are bitter

but famine food and used in several traditional Asian medicines.

Indigenous deciduous tree with crooked bark, leathery leaves, whitish pink fragrant flowersand pods with bean-shaped seeds. Wood is usedfor timber, fuel and medicine on leprosy and boils.

Morinda citrifolia Bartondi

Dalbergia sissoo Indian Rosewood

Syzygium cumini  JamunEvergreen indigenous tree with smooth glossy leaves, fragrant white flowers in clusters, purple edible berries. The leaves are used for strengthning the teeth and gums. The fruit and seeds are used in diabities, diarrhoea and ringworm. The bark is diuretic, digestive and anthelmintic.

Large tree with umbrella-like evergreen canopy, feathery foliage, cracking grey bark, puffs of pink flowers and fleshy pod. Named so because of moisture spraying from tree. Used for shade and fuel.

Large evergreen indigenous tree withgreen-grey smooth bark, aerial roots, broad ovate leaves

with extended apex, axillary flowers and reddish fruits. Bark has anti-diabetic, anti-oxidant uses

and leaves have wound-healing uses.

Large, striaght, indigenous deciduous tree with red flowers, fruits with cotton, thorny bark. Cotton used in sofa and pillows, wood in construction, mat boxes, moulds, boats etc. Favorite of birds and butterflies.

Albizia saman Rain Tree

Salmalia malabarica Red Silk Cotton Tree

Slender tree with smooth grey bark having lenticels, simple leaves with unequal base and serrated margins,

small inconspicuous unisexual flowers. The leaves and the bark are used to treat coughs, sore throats,

asthma, bronchitis, gonorrhea, yellow fever, toothache.

Trema orientalis Charcoal Tree Ficus amplissima

Indian Bat Fig

Large, striaght, indigenous deciduous tree with smooth bark, pink or scarlet flowers, fruit with cotton.

Bombax insigne Showy Silk Cotton Tree

Jatropha gossypiifolia  JatrophaA bush with tri-lobed glossy purple leaves when young, small red flowers yellow in centre. Fruits poisonous to humans and animals but used by tribals to cure stomachache. Plant is fuel source.

Tropical seashore tree with coniferous appearance, green hanging branches, jointed nodes, cracked and hard wood. Tree is planted as windbraker on

beaches.

Fragrant shrub with white or creamy blooms, glossy and leathery leaves. Grows to 6-8 ft

height with almost equal spread.

Small tree with branched silky leaves and powder-puff-like balls of conspicuous dark crimson stamens that attract birds and butterflies. Flowers decoction used as tonic and blood purifier.

Casuarina equisetifolia Whistling Pine

Gardenia jasminoides Cape Jasmine

Calliandra haematocephala Powder Puff