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Ipil-ipil |
| Vernacular Name: Sin: Ipil-ipil; Eng: Lead tree, white popinac, jumpy bean. | |
| Description: Small evergreen tree, several metres in height. Leaves bipinnate, leaflets small. Flowers white in axillary panicle. Pod thin and flat, brownish when ripe. Seeds glabrous, dark-brown. | |
| Propagation: By seeds and vegetative method. | |
| Part Used: Seeds. | |
| Chemical Constituents: The seeds contain a fatty oil. Consisting of plamitic, steanc, oleic, linoleic, behenic and lignoceric acids and the alkaloid leucenine (1eucenol 3-5%. The leaves yield tannin, quercitrin and alkaloids. | |
| Uses: The seeds have a beneficial effect in ascariasis. The torrefied seeds are prescribed in the form of a powder or sugared’cake. They are occasionally used fres. | |
