Description : Elephant Creeper is a vigorous vine native to India, introduced world-wide. It has large, leathery heart-shaped leaves, which are white on the underside due to hairs. It is called elephant creeper because of the large leaves which look like elephant ears. Leaf blades are 15-25 cm long, and 13-20 cm wide, heart-shaped.The flowers […]
Description: Barberry is a deciduous shrub, growing up to 4 meters in height. It has a gray-yellow, grooved stem and thorny branches. Leaves are borne in clusters of two to five, usually small and oval, toothed along the margins. Flowers are bright yellow, produced on long panicles from April to June. The fruits are oblong […]
Description : Patola Patra Trichosanthes dioica or pointed gourd is recommended in liver disorders. It nourishes the liver and corrects all its functions. Working of the digestive system and the skin health are directly related with the working of liver. So Patola Patra also benefits in these conditions also. Patola Patra is a soft laxative […]
Description : It has prickly stems and small, fluffy, ball shaped pink flowers in summer. It grows to a height of 50 cm with a spread of 30 cm. In some areas this plant is becoming a noxious weed. The stem is erect, slender and branching. The leaves are bipinnate, fern like and pale green- […]
Description : Broken Bones Tree is a native tree often grown as an ornamental for its strange appearance. The long, podded fruits hang down from bear branches, looking like dangling sickles or swords in the night. Additionally, after the large leaf stalks wither, they fall off the tree and collect near the base of the […]
Description : Wild Indigo grows as common wasteland weed. In many parts it is under cultivation as green manure crop. Its is a plant of the genus Tephrosia having pinnate leaves and white or purplish flowers and flat hairy pods. This plant contains a mild toxin called tephrosin which chemically stuns fish but does not […]
Description : The dried root bark has abortifacient, alterative, anthelmintic, antiinflammatory, antispasmodic, bitter, depurative, digestive, emetic, expectorant, febrifuge, laxative, stomachic and tonic properties that relieves strangury, cures ulcers and acts as an expectorant. It is also used in enlargement of spleen, asthma and dysentery. Calotropin, extracted from the roots, has been found to be effective […]
Description : Hadjod; also known as Cicssus quadrangularis is named so because of its characteristic property to help in proper healing of bones and union of bones in fracture. Hadjod is also recommended in old age to prevent age related changes like osteoporosis. It also corrects the working of digestive system and nourishes the […]