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Synonym |
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Thunbergia grandiflora
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Family |
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Acanthaceae |
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Local name |
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English
-Blue Trumpet Vine |
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Flowering and fruiting period |
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February-July |
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Distribution |
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India,
Myanmar, China and Singapore |
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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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Endemic / Exotic |
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Exotic |
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Uses |
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The
leaf sap is used for menorrhagia, ear infections and deafness, and the
poulticed leaves to soothe
cuts and boils. |
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Key Botanical Characters : Climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, to 10
x 7 cm, ovate, cordate, hastate or sagitate, acuminate apex, margin distantly
dentate, glabrous or slightly puberulous; petiole to 2.2 cm. Flowers large in
axillary racemes; bracts spathaceous, tomentose; bracteoles falcate. Calyx
very small, to 2 mm long. Corolla blue or white, tube widened, lobes subequal
spreading, 3.5 cm across. Stamens 4, attached at the throat of the tube;
anthers oblong. Capsules globose, beaked; seeds 4, globose, retinacula absent.  |
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