Diospyros melanoxylon

Coromandel Ebony or East Indian Ebony (Diospyros melanoxylon) is a species of flowering tree in the family Ebenaceae that is native to India and Sri Lanka and that has a hard, dry bark. Its common name derives from Coromandel, the coast of southeastern India. Locally it is known as temburini or by its Hindi name tendu. In Odisha and Jharkhand it is known as kendu. The leaves can be wrapped around tobacco to create the Indian beedi, which has outsold conventional cigarettes in India.
Common Names

(Oriya) : Kendu
(Bengali) : kend, kendu
(Hindi) : abnus, kendu, tendu, timburni
(Nepali) : abnush, tendu
(Sanskrit) : dirghapatraka
(Tamil) : karai, karundumbi, tumbi
(Telugu) : tuniki, beedi aaku
(Trade name) : ebony

Pharmacology
The leaf of the tree contains valuable flavones. The pentacyclic triterpines found in the...