Systematic Classification: Common Name: Satawar, Satamuli, Satavari. General Information: Asparagus racemosus (satavar, shatavari, or shatamull, shatawari) is a species of asparagus common throughout India and the Himalayas. It grows 1–2 m (3 ft 3 in–6 ft 7 in) tall and prefers to take root in gravelly, rocky soils high up in piedmont plains, at 1,300–1,400 […]
Systematic Classification: Common Name: Flame of the Forest, Palash and Bastard Teak. General Information: It is a species of Butea native to tropical and sub-tropical parts of the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia, ranging across India, Bangladesh, Nepal, SriLanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, and western Indonesia. It is a small-sized dry-season, deciduous tree, growing […]
Systematic Classification: Local Name: Neyaram, Kambilivirinji, Pattutthalli. General Information: Trees, to 18 m high, bark dark grey, smooth, lenticellate; young shoots densely fulvous tomentose. Leaves simple, subverticillate, opposite or subopposite, 7-25 x 2.5-6 cm, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, apex acuminate, base acute or attenuate, margin entire, glabrous above, villous beneath, chartaceous; lateral nerves 8-12 pairs, pinnate, […]
Systematic classification: Common name: Poison devil tree, Analivegam General information: Alstonia venenata is a plant of the family Apocynaceae. It grows as a shrub or small tree in low to mid elevation deciduous forests of India.Growing up to 6m tall with grayish brown bark and bright yellow hard woody root.Leaves are simple arranged in whorls […]