|
Choi mohi, Shermili buti.
|
|
|
- Synonym:
- Plant Family:
- Mimosaceae.
- Habit & Habitat:
- A perennial shrub up to 1m tall has been cultivated and introduced in local area.
- Plant Description:
- Stem slender, hairy, prickly, erect but become creeping with age.Leaves bipinnately compound with 1-2 pinnae pairs. Leaflets 10-22 pairs, sessile, linear-acute. Inflorescence in peduncled globose heads. Calyx minute. Corolla pink,divided into lobes.Fruit a pod.Seed pale-brown.
- Flowering and Fruiting:
- July-September.
- Harvesting Time:
- August-October.
- Medicinal Value:
- Locally powder is used wounds healing, also as a blood purifier and astringent. Whole plant decoction is useful in piles.
- Part Used:
- Flower and leaf.
- Occurrence:
- Cultivated.
- Future Perspective:
- Conservation, Cultivation, Herbal Pharmacy.
- Gallery
