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Plumbago auriculata Lam
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Synonym |
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Plumbago capensis Willd. |
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Family |
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PLUMBAGINACEAE |
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Local name |
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English- Cape
Plumbago, |
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Flowering and
fruiting period |
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November-April |
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Distribution |
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Native of South Africa |
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Distribution
in kerala |
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All Districts |
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Habitat |
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Grown as
garden plant |
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Uses |
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used traditionally to treat
warts, broken bones and wounds. |
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Key Botanical
Characters: An erect or climbing shrub upto 1.5 m tall.
Leaves obovate to spathulate, upto 6 cm long and 2.5 cm wide, apex obtuse,
base attenuate, glabrous beneath; petioles very short, dilated to form
rounded, amplexicaul, stipule-like auricles. Flowers blue-purple or
occasionally white; calyx 1-1.8 cm long, upper portion with glands; corolla
tube slender, delicate, upto 4 cm long.  |
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