Botanical name-Atropha podagrica
Family name:-EUPHORBIACEAE
English name-Australian bottle plant
Tamil name-
Sanskirt name:-
Status:-Native
Edibal parts:-None
Description:-
Vishakumba Plant is a shrub about 18 inches tall with stems swollen and knobby and twisted with bristled scars.The leaves are leathery, orbicular-ovate, peltate, long-petioled, to 12 inches across, deeply 3-5 lobed with obtuse sinuses. The caudex can be up to 12 inches in diameter.
Cymes (flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first) are terminal, long-peduncled with red pedicels. Flowers are small, coral-red.
Grows in- Sri Lanka, Native to Central America,particularly China and India.
Ayurvedic usage-Snake bites
Parts used to make medicine-Leaves ,Barks,Roots,Whole plant
Propagation -Seeds
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