champaka :

Michelia champaca is an evergreen or semi-deciduous, small to mediumsized tree up to 50 m tall

Flowers are white, elongated, bell-shaped, with thin, leathery, and narrow petals, emitting a strong sweet fragrance.

Cultivated for its flowers and used for making floral necklaces or the perfuming of clothes in storage. Also used to scent hair oils.

Studies have shown antibacterial, antifungal, antioxidant, tyrosinase inhibiting, anti-asthmatic, cytotoxic properties.

The genus is named after Italian botanist Peter A. Michel (1679-1737); the

specific epithet after the Hindu name

Kotakkal Ayurveda - Mother land of modern ayurveda

champaka - Michelia champaca Linn. - Magnoliaceae