Category: Know our Plant

Asparagus racemosus Willd.

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 […]

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Arachis pintoi Krapov.& W.C. Greg.

Systematic classification: Common name: Pinto peanut General Information: Arachis pintoi is a herbaceous perennial plant with stems that are at first prostrate and then ascend to around 50cm high when growing in dense swards. Young plants have a stoloniferous root system, developing a strong taproot on older crowns. This wild perennial relative of the groundnut […]

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Aporosa lindleyana Ball.

Systematic Classification Common Name: Kodali, Vettikan, Vettil, Kotili, Ponvetti, Vetti,Salle mara, Sali, Sarali, Sulla. General Information: Trees up to 15 m tall.Trunk &Bark smooth to shallowly fissured, brownish; blaze pink.Branchlets terete, glabrous.Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules oblong-lanceolate, acute, caducous; petiole 0.7-1.3 cm long, canaliculate, swollen at both ends, glabrous; lamina 7.5-17 x 3-7.5 cm, narrow […]

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Argyreia nervosa(Burm.f.)Bojer

Systematic Classification: Common Names: Baby woodrose, Elephant climber, Elephant creeper, Elephant ear vine, Elephant vine, Hawaiian baby woodrose, Silver morning glory, Wood rose, Woodrose, Woolly morning glory. General Information: This species is a weed of tropical and sub-tropical habitats, including rainforests, open woodlands, roadsides, distrubed sites and waste areas. A robust climber that grow up […]

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