Bengal Quince or Stone apple (Aegle marmelos Correa) is a fruit indegenous to India where it is popularly known as Bael fruit. It is a woody and smooth food which is 5 to 15 cm in diameter. It has numerous seeds, which are densely covered with fibrous hairs and are embedded in a thick aromatic pulp. The flesh is either eaten fresh or dried. Binomial name Cydonia oblonga Mill. ...
The fruit comes from the bael tree that is natively from India and has been mentioned in the vedas. Lord Shiva is said to live under the bael tree and so the tree is worshipped by Hindus. It is also grown in other parts of the subcontinent. The Vedas are part of the Hindu Shruti; these religious scriptures form part of the core of the Brahminical and Vedic traditions within Hinduism and are the inspirational, metaphysical and mythological foundation for later Vedanta, Yoga, Tantra and even Bhakti forms of Hinduism. ... This article is about the Hindu God. ... This article is about the Hindu religion; for other meanings of the word, see Hindu (disambiguation). ...
The fruit is popularly used in making Sharbat a refreshing drink where the pulp is mixed with tamarind. The fruit is also nutritious and possesses many curative properties specifically as the best natural laxative. Infact heavy consumption of this fruit leads to dysentry. Binomial name Tamarindus indica The Tamarind (alternative name Indian date, translation of Arabic تمر هندي tamr hindī) is a tropical tree, originally from east Africa but now introduced into most of tropical Asia as well as Latin America. ... A laxative is a preparation used for the purpose of encouraging defecation, or the elimination of feces. ... Dysentery is a severe diarrhea illness often associated with blood in the feces. ...
Reference
H.K.Bakhru (1997). Foods that Heal. The Natural Way to Good Health. Orient Paperbacks. ISBN 81-222-0033-8.
The Quince Cydonia oblonga is the sole member of the genus Cydonia and native to warm-temperate southwest Asia in the Caucasus region.
Quinces are mentioned for the first time in an English text in the later 13th century, though cultivation in England is not very successful due to inadequate summer heat to ripen the fruit fully.
The quince, used as a rootstock for grafted plants, has the property of stunting the growth of pears, of forcing them to produce relatively more fruit-bearing branches, instead of vegetative growth, and of accelerating the maturity of the fruit.
The Quince Cydonia oblonga, the sole member of the genus Cydonia, is a small to medium size tree native to warm-temperate southwest Asia in the Caucasus region.
The quince, used as a stock, has the property of stunting the growth of pears, of forcing them to produce bearing branches, instead of sterile ones, and of accelerating the maturity of the fruit.
These are the Chinese Quince Pseudocydonia sinensis, a native of China, and the three flowering quinces of east Asia in the genus Chaenomeles.
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