Hingan bet

Scientific Name: Balanites aegyptica Common Name: Hingan bet

The dried fruit is soaked in water so that the hard shell or covering of the fruit comes out. After this rub the fruit pulp on the cloth. This acts like soap in water, and helps in washing clothes. It cam be a good alternative to chemical based sop. The fruits can be plucked and dried during the winter season and used as and when required. This tree is a dry area plant and growing predominantly in drier parts of the country. It is a xerophyte plant. In Maharashtra, it is found predominantly growing in the deccan plateau. The tree gets, it’s local name Hingan –bet, because Hingan means the trees and bet means island. These photographs where taken from a village called Jeur, which is around 70 km from Pune city.