Sapindus Mukorossi SEEDS Soap Nut Soapberry Seeds

LATIN NAME: Sapindus mukorossi

COMMON NAME: Soapberry

The soapberry tree holds its compound leaves and the large, loose panicles of the small, pale-green flowers, and the round, amber fruits hang in the clusters. The deciduous, medium-sized tree carries the pinnate, compound leaves with the many lance-shaped leaflets and the large, loose, terminal panicles of the small, pale-green or whitish flowers through the early summer, one of the fine, generous sights of the warm garden, drawing the bees, to be followed by the round, smooth, amber-yellow or blackish fruits with the hard, black, soapy seeds. The fruits have a very long record as the fine, natural soap of the old wash tubs, and the tree is a fine, historic presence of the warm garden. It is a tree of the open, sunny, deep, well-drained ground.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The soapberry tree is a historic subject of the plant science, and the round fruits keep showing up in the work on the saponin-rich trees. The chemistry of the round, smooth, amber-yellow fruits, which carry the fine, soapy saponins of the old wash tubs, has been studied at length, and it keeps appearing in the studies of the saponin-rich trees, the soapy fruits and the members of the soapberry family. The compound leaves and the rounded habit have also made it a fine study tree, and the soapberry tree is a regular subject of the work on the round fruits of the warm world.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

The soapberry tree is a fine, generous tree of the warm garden and the study collection. The round, smooth, amber-yellow fruits have a very long record as the fine, natural soap of the old wash tubs, the hard, black seeds frothing in the wash water of the old kitchens, while the large, loose, terminal panicles of the small, pale-green or whitish flowers open through the early summer, drawing the bees. It is one of the fine choices for the warm garden, the street tree and the study collection, and it has been written about in the botanical and the household papers for the round fruits and the very long history. It is a fine, generous tree of the open, sunny, deep, well-drained garden.

Give the young trees the deep, well-drained bed, and the amber fruits will come in the years to come.

To grow the soapberry tree from seed, sow the round, dark-brown seeds a couple of centimetres down in the pot of rich, gritty soil, keep the pot in a warm, bright spot and water gently, then pot the young trees on as they fill the pot. The seedlings show themselves within a few weeks and grow on steadily. With the sun and the deep, well-drained ground, the amber fruits will come in the years to come.

roots and fruits are Medicinal

Medical functions: Antipyretic Antiviral

Ritha ( Soap Nut Tree ) Sapindus detergens/Sapindus mukorossi Ritha, or soap nut tree is a beautiful, tropical, large-leaved deciduous tree of the Asian continent. It can be grown in warm to tropical climates, small trees can be grown inside in large tubs. Better known as soap-nut tree in inter-continental trade, it is an important trees of tropical and sub-tropical regions of the Indian subcontinent. Scientific name of the species being Sapindus mukorossi, it belongs to the main plant order Sapindaceae and family Sapindeae. The species is indigenous to India and China and widely cultivated in upper reaches of the Indo-Gangetic plains, Shivaliks and sub-Himalayan tracts at altitudes varying from 200m to 1500m above mean sea level. The species flourishes well in deep clayey loam soil and does best in areas experiencing nearly 150 to 200 cm of annual rainfall.