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Prinsepia utilis Royle
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- Local Name:
- Palara.
- Synonym:
- Habit & Habitat:
- A spiny shrub up to 3m tall, found in sub-tropical, temperate and sub-alpine zones.
- Plant Description:
- Leaves simple,elliptic to narrow-lanceolate,margin entire or minutely toothed. Inflorescence a raceme, axillary or on short branches, many flowered. Flower in clusters, white,borne in axial of spines,7-15mm across. Calyx cup-shaped with 5 unequal rounded lobes. Petals round.Fruit a drupe, oblong-cylindrical,fleshy,dark purple,one-seeded.
- Flowering and Fruiting:
- April-November.
- Harvesting Time:
- August-December.
- Medicinal Value:
- Locally seed oil is used in rheumatism and weakness of bones. Plant extract and fruit cake is useful in ringworm, eczema and other skin diseases.
- Part Used:
- Flower, fruit cake and leaf.
- Occurrence:
- Abundant.
- Future Perspective:
- Collection, Drying, Packing, Herbal Pharmacy, Allopathic Pharmacy, Oil Extraction.
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