Family: Sapotaceae (mahua family)
Brief Details: Mohwa is one of the most important Indian forest trees, not because it may possess valuable timber – and it is hardly ever cut for this purpose – but because of its delicious and nutritive flowers. It is large and deciduous with thick, grey bark, vertically cracked and wrinkled. Most of the leaves fall from February to April, and during that time the musky-scented flowers appear. A couple of months after the flowering period the fruit opens. They are fleshy, green berries, quite large and containing from one to four shiny, brown seeds.
ss and heart trouble while the fruit is given in cases of consumption and blood diseases.