Balu Dang

Scientific name: Ardisia elliptica
Family name: MYRSINACEAE
English name: Shoebutton ardisia
Local name: Balu dan
Conservation status: Least concerned (NCS 2012)
Description: Much-branched shrub, 2 m high. Leaves 7.5-12 x 2.5-4 cm; petioles 2-5 mm long. Flowerspink in dense, many flowered corymbose racemes; pedicels 10-18 mm long. Berry5-6 mm diameter, dark-purpla.
Status: Native
Edible parts: Wild Fruit
Ayurvedic Treatments- Breast adenocarcinoma
Herpes

PARTS USED IN TREATMENT:

leaves
Fruits

RELATED MEDICINAL PROPERTIES:

Antiviral
Antiplatelet activity