கப்பல் செய்த கத்தகாம்பு மரம் - KATHAKAMBU SHIP BUILDING TREE

 

கப்பல் செய்த கத்தகாம்பு மரம்

KATHAKAMBU SHIP BUILDING TREE

My Dear Vivasaya Panchangam Friends ! Good Morning !

In this video Bhumii Gnana Soorian, gives you the salient featues of the tree by name Kathakambu in Tamil, it is also referred in another two names as Karungali, Karngali and Kodali Murungai.

It is named as RED KUTCH TREE in English. Once it was primarily used for Shipbuilding, this shows the superior quality and strength of this timber, the wood and the timbers are also used for keeping them as Pillars, Posts, Beams, making wooden House Hold utensils like Ural - Ulakkai, furniture, wood pulp for papermaking, extraction of fabric dyes, etc.

Since it is announced as endangered species by the Government, Bhumii Gnana Soorian requested the people to collect the seeds from the existing trees for further propagation.

Presented & Published By: D.Gnana Suria Bahavan, Author, Vivasaya Panchangam Blogspot.

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