Ornamental, young leaves used as vegetable, remedy for skin disorders

അലങ്കാരച്ചെടി. ഇളം ഇലകൾ പച്ചക്കറിക്കായി ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നു. ത്വക് രോഗങ്ങൾക്ക് പ്രതിവിധി.

This plant is a medium-sized tree. Leaves broadly ovate or suborbicular,  cordate at base, entire at margin, acuminate at apex. Flowers in large terminal panicles.  Sepals 5, linear-lanceolate. Petals 5, unequal, shorter than sepals, rosy. Staminal tube  adnate to gynophore with a 5-fid cup at top, each segment with 3 anthers; staminodes 5.  Ovary 5-loculed; style slender. Capsules pyriform, inflated, membranous, loculicidal.