In Singapore, the beautiful tree is planted as a wayside tree. In Malaysia the wood is used for making boat masts.
#DILO NUT OIL SKIN#
The seed oil is used to sooth skin inflammations and insect bites. The natives in New Caledonia and Samoa use the leaves for different skin inflammations, leg ulcers and wounds.Īn infusion of the fruit is said to be pectoral and stimulant of the mucous membrane of the lungs. Ancient native black tribes throughout Papua New Guinea utilized the leves frequently for different kinds of skin problems. In Cambodia, the leaves are prescribed as an inhalation for migraine and vertigo and the oil for scabies. The leaf infusion is taken internally for heatstroke. The leaves soaked in water are applied to inflamed eyes in Fiji and Linga. Taken internally, the bark acts as expectorant and it is useful in chronic bronchitis. It acts as an antiseptic and disinfectant and it is also used for internal haemorrhages and gonorrhoea. The bark is astringent and it is used in Asia and India for orchitis. The resin may be useful for chronic catarrh. An infusion of gum, bark and leaves is used for sore eyes. The gum extracted from the plant is emetic and purgative and is used for the treatment of wounds and ulcers. In Java, the tree is believed to have diuretic properties. Tamanu, Calophyllum inophyllum-the African, Asian, Polynesian and Pacific Panacea.)
#DILO NUT OIL FULL#
The tree can tolerate full strength seawater and grows along the seashore. The kernel is called a "punnai nut" in some areas of the Pacific, and the oil is dark, green, thick and called "dilo oil" or "huile de tamanu". When mature, it has a thin leathery dark grey-brownish skin, which covers a bony shell that holds a partly poisonous kernel or seed surrounded by a cork-like substance. The fruit begins pinkish-green, rounds out to about 2 inches long and becomes bright green.
The fragrance attracts a wide variety of pollinating insects. The small, white fragrant flowers which sparkle like stars against the dark green leaves begin to open at 3-4 am and are wide open at sunrise. They are waxy and showy with golden yellow stamens and a pink pistil, and grow in clusters of a dozen or so flowers found hanging from a long stalk. When new the delightfully fragrant flowers are small, 1 inch wide, and white with 4-8 petals. They are 3-8 inches long, arranged opposite each other and have closely placed fine parallel veins running from a prominent raised yellow-green midrib to the leaf margin. The leaves of kamani are large, stiff, shiny, leathery and oblong with a blunt tip. A reddish-brown hardwood is derived from the trunk. Kamani is a large attractive spreading tree up to 60 feet high, with a rounded head of dense foliage and rough grey bark.
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