Taxon: Aegle marmelos (L.) Corrêa

Common names:

• bael   (Source: Websters Dict )
  
• baeltree   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• bel indien   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• bela   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• Belbaum   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• belfruit-tree   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• beli   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• Bengal-quince   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• golden-apple   (Source: Websters Dict )
  
• Indian baelfruit   (Source: Swingle)
  
• milva   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• mu ju   (Source: F ChinaEng )
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit   (especially in India fide Bot Citrus 455. 1943)
  
• Materials: essential oils; gum/resin; wood   (fide Pl Book)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2; Biodiv Conserv 13:459. 2004)
  

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Distributional range:

Native:

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India - Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal; Nepal
  North Indian Ocean: India - Andaman and Nicobar
  Indo-China: Myanmar

Other:

• cultivated in Malesia

References:

• Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java. (F Java)
• Carpenter, J. B. & P. C. Reece. 1969. Catalog of genera, species, and subordinate taxa in the orange subfamily Aurantioideae (Rutaceae). (Cat Aurant)
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon)
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. (Cornucopia)
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim. (F Bhutan)
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal)
• Kala, C. P. et al. 2004. Prioritization of medicinal plants on the basis of available knowledge, existing practices and use value status in Uttaranchal, India. Biodivers. & Conserv. 13:459.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. & G. Espig. 1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics. (CultTropS)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Saldanha, C. J. & D. H. Nicolson. 1976. Flora of Hassan district. (F Hassan)
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India. (F India)
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova. (F Viti)
• St. John, H. 1973. List and summary of the flowering plants in the Hawaiian islands. (L Hawaii)
• Swingle, W. T. & P. C. Reece. 1967. The botany of Citrus and its wild relatives. (Bot Citrus)
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
• Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict)

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Synonyms:

• (≡) Belou marmelos (L.) A. Lyons
  (previously associated with 48 accessions)
• (≡) Crateva marmelos L. (basionym)
  

Check other databases for Aegle marmelos (L.) Corrêa:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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