ORGANIC BIBHITAKI FRUITS

COMMON NAME Haritaki
OTHER NAME Harad, Chebulik myrobalan
BOTANICAL NAME Terminalia chebula Retz
PLANT FAMILY Combretaceae
PART USED
De-seeded dried fruits Powder.

A moderate-sized to large (large in good soil, and moderate in dry rocky places) deciduous tree with a cylindrical bole, rounded crown and spreading branches; leaves ovate, elliptic or obovate, glabrous to tawny-villous beneath with a pair of large glands at the of the petiole; fruits glabrous, shining, ellipsoidal, obovoid or ovoid drupes, yellow to orange-brown in color, faintly angled, up to 3.75 cm long; seeds hard, pale yellow.