Konok-chapa, Golden Champak, Ochna jabotapita

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Konok-chapa or Golden Champak (Ochna jabotapita, family: Ochnaceae) is one of the most beautiful flowering plants of Bangladesh. It occurs at Chittagong, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Cox's Bazar, Sylhet and Mymensingh. It is also found in Eastern India as well as Myanmar, Sri Lanka. It is planted as a garden plant in Bangladesh occasionally.


Shinny leaves are alternate, 6-12 cm long, elliptic, sharply serrate.

The vivid yellow-colored and fragrant flowers give a eternal impression to the passers-by. 


The plant is used in menstrual disorder, asthma, constipation, epilepsy and other diseases. Digestive is made from it's bark. Leaves are used in wounds. Its roots are long, curved and twisted. For this reason those are used by the Santals (a tribal community) as an antidote to snake-bite.


Fruit is a drupe, 6 mm long. Young fruit is light green in color. It turns to black when ripe. Seeds are easily germinated. Though the growth of the plant is very slow.


The reddish sepals hold the young fruits very nicely.


Common names: Ote Champa, Ramdhan Champa.

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