A genus of tropical Asian flowering plants in the family Alangiaceae, used in traditional medicine and having various culinary and medicinal applications.
From the Malay name for the plant, Latinized into a genus name following Linnaean taxonomy conventions established in the 18th century for scientific plant classification.
Alangium species have been used in Ayurvedic and traditional Asian medicine for thousands of years—and modern pharmacologists are still investigating whether these traditional remedies actually work scientifically!
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