Description : Putranjiva is a famous, moderate-sized, evergreen tree, growing up to 12 m in height. It has pendant branches and dark grey bark having horizontal lenticels. Leaves are simple, alternately arranged, dark green, shiny, elliptic-oblong, distantly serrated. Male flowers, with short stalks, in rounded axillary clusters, female flowers 1-3 in leaf axil. It clearly indicates […]
Description : Inula racemosa grows in temperate and western Himalayas at an altitude of 1300 to 4500 meters.The plant is small hardy shrub that grows on an average height of 0.33 to 2 meters and leaves of Inula are 3-6 cm long and 2-3 cm broad and elliptical with long petioles. The plant stem is […]
Description : Fenugreek seed is the ripe fruit of an annual herb. this robust herb has light green leaves, is 30-60 cm tall and produces slender, beaked pods, 10-15 cm long, each pod contains 10-20 small hard yellowish brown seeds, which are smooth and oblong, about 3mm long, each grooved across one corner, giving them […]
Description : A tall tree with young parts densely velvety tomentose. Leaves opposite, broadly ovate or elliptic-rhomboid, cordate or subtruncate, fulvous tomentose beneath. Flowers orange yellow or brownish yellow, in dichotomously branched, velvety tomentose panicles of 3 – flowered cymes. Gambhari or Khambhari is a tree which is valued in Ayurveda for its medicinal properties […]
Description : The fast-growing Orchid-Tree will ultimately reach 35 feet in height and width, the slender trunks topped with arching branches clothed in large, two-lobed, deciduous leaves. In fall, before the leaves drop, Orchid-Tree is festooned with many showy and delightfully fragrant, five-inch-wide blossoms, the narrow purple, pink, and lavender petals arranged to closely resemble […]
Description : Banyan tree is a huge tree with very extensive branches. It is said that at one time more than 10, 000 people can sit under its shade at one time. It is a evergreen tree. It branches spread out and send trunk like roots to the ground in order to support itself. It grows to a […]
Description : The Moringa plant is a perennial, evergreen tree that grows up to 20 ft (6.1 m) tall, with a straight trunk with corky, whitish bark. It grows well in hot, semi-arid and humid regions and in well-drained sandy or loamy soils. The tree has tuberous taproot and brittle stem is with corky bark. […]
Description : Medium sized thorny deciduous tree grows up to 13 meters in height. Leaves bipinnately compound, leaflets 30-50 paired, main rachis pubescent, with large conspicuous gland near the middle of the rachis. Flowers pale yellow, sessile, found in axillary spikes. Fruits flat brown pods, with triangular beak at the apex, shiny, narrowed at base. […]