Monday, July 15, 2013










Scientific name: (Centipeda minima)

        This plant’s Family name is “ASTERACEAE”. This is a Low growing annual herbs. Leaves oblanceolate or spathulate, 5 – 10 X 2 – 4 mm, somewhat fleshy, 3 – 5 toothed or lobed, acute at the apex, attenuate, subpetiolate at the base, minutely puberulous and glandular on the lower surface. Capitula subglobose, 2.5 – 4 mm diam., + sessile in leaf axils. Flowers yellowish-green. Achenes narrowly oblanceolate, including spongy apical corona 0.75 mm long.








Black creeper
(Ichnocarpus frutescens)


It is slender, moderately woody twiner.  It’s Family name is “APOCYNACEAE”. Leaf blade 3 – 8 cm long, 1.5 – 4 cm wide, widest in or slightly above the middle, obtuse or rounded at the base, acute or faintly short-acuminate at the apex, firmly membranous; reticulate venation slightly impressed impressed above and faintly raised beneath or not sculptured at all on either side. Merocarps 5 – 22 cm long, about 0.2 cm wide, rusty pubescent when young, more or less glabrescent when ripe.












 Bicolor Rose Balsom (Impatiens balsamina).

 Some peoples grow this plant as a Flower tree. This is use for some Ayurvedic Treatments(Scalds). It’s family name is “Balsaminaceae. Annual herb to 60 cm tall, often less. Leaves spirally arranged, lamina narrowly lanceolate to narrowly elliptic or oblanceolate, 2.7 – 9 cm long, 1.1 – 2.6 cm broad, the base cuneate, the apex acute, glabrous or finely pubescent above and / or beneath, margins serrate-dentate with several dark sessile glands towards the base of the lamina. Flowers epedunculate, solitary or in fascicles of 2 – 3, white or pink. Fruit broadly fusiform, 12 – 20 mm long, 6 – 8 mm broad, densely tomentose.










Scientific name:   (Indigofera aspalathoides)

  This is use for much Ayurvedic Treatment(Leprosy , Abscesses, Skin Diseases, psoriasis) and more treatments. It’s Family name is “FABACEAE”.
It is a Shrub, much branched. Leaves sessile, digitate, subfasciculate, 1 – 5 foliate; leaflets linear to obovate, often involute, 2 – 3 ( - 7 ) X 1 mm, obtuse at the apex, cuneate at the base, glabrous above, sparsely appressed-pubescent beneath. Flowers solitary, axillary, reddish. Fruit linear, straight, (3 -) 5 – 8 seeded.




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