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Caryopteris odorata (D.Don) B.L.Robinson.
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- Synonym:
- Plant Family:
- Verbenaceae.
- Habit & Habitat:
- A medium sized, branched shrub, 1-5m tall, found in sub-tropical zone.
- Plant Description:
- Leaves simple, lanceolate-elliptic, short petiole with acute tip. Inflorescence in cymes, usually terminal. Flower zygomorphic, purplish-blue, sometime white with bluish tinge. Corolla tube short, limbs 5-lobed. Fruit a capsule, globose, 5mm broad, bluish, 4-valved with one seed each.
- Flowering and Fruiting:
- March-May.
- Harvesting Time:
- March-July.
- Medicinal Value:
- Locally powder of dried flowers and leaves is used for healing wounds. Plant extract is useful in general body pain.
- Part Used:
- Flower, Leaf.
- Occurrence:
- Common.
- Future Perspective:
- Collection, Drying, Packing, Herbal Pharmacy, Allopathic Pharmacy.
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