Bitterroot Restoration

Division: Tracheophyta
Class: Magnoliophyta
Order: Rosales
Family: Moraceae

Common name: Deowa, Deophal(Beng.); Monkey jack(Eng.).
Edible Parts: Wood, fruit
Native Range: Native to India and Bhutan and southern China to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

Artocarpus lakoocha is a deciduous tree, 10-15 m tall. Branchlets are 3-6 mm thick, densely covered with stiff pale brown to yellow velvety hairs. Stipules are ovate-lanceshaped, 4-5 cm long. Elliptic leaves, on 2-3 cm long stalks, are densely covered with yellow bristles. Leaves are large. Sometimes pinnately lobed, base wedge-shaped, tip blunt. Leaf margin is entire or with small teeth. Flowers are tiny, yellowish, fused into a round flower body.

Medicinal uses of Artocarpus lakoocha are Antibacterial, antihelmintic, antituberculotic.