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White Champa is a hybrid between M. champaca anf M. montana, grown as an ornamental and used medicinally. The plant is usually not fruiting and is propagated by grafting. It is a tree up to 17 m tall, up to 30 cm d.b.h. with bark gray. Flowers are very fragrant. Tepals are 10, white, lanceshaped, 3-4 cm x 3-5 mm. Staminal connective protruding and forming a long tip. Branches and leaves are fragrant after being crushed. Twigs are patent, forming a broadly umbelliform crown.Young twigs and buds are densely pale yellowish white puberulous, trichomes gradually deciduous with age. Leaf-stalks are 1.5-2 cm, sparsely puberulous, leaves long elliptic to narrowly ovate, 10-27 x 4-9.5 cm, thinly leathery, base cuneate, tip long-pointed to tip falling off. Flowering: April-September.

Magnolia x alba

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Kamala Tree (pronounced kaamlaa) is a tree found throughout India. It has been in use as medicinal tree in India for ages. The tree can grow up to 10 m tall. Alternately arranged, ovate or rhombic ovate leaves are rusty-velvety. Male and female flowers occur in different trees. Female flowers are borne in lax spike like racemes at the end of branches or in leaf axils. Male flowers occur three together in the axils of small bracts. Capsule is trigonous-globular, covered with a bright crimson layer of minute, easily detachable reddish powder. Kamala is supposed to be a very useful tree. It is source of Kamala dye which is used in colouring silk and wool. It is used as anti-oxidant for ghee and vegetable oils. Oil is used as hair-fixer and added in ointment. Seed oil is used in paints and varnishes. Seed cake is used as manure.
Medicinal uses: According to Ayurveda, leaves are bitter, cooling and appetizer. Fruit is heating, Purgative, anthelmintic, vulnerary, detergent, maturant, carminative, alexiteric and useful in treatment of bronchitis, abdominal diseases, spleen enlargement etc

Description

Global Distribution

India: Andaman & Nicobar Island, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu

Local Distribution

Throughout Assam

Uses and Management

Uses

System Of Medicines Used In

Ayurveda, Homoeopathy, Folk medicine, Unani, Siddha

The capsules are a chief source for the extraction of orange dye (Kamela). The wood is used as fuel. The fruit and leaves are used in numerous herbal preparations.

Botanical name:Spathiphyllum wallisii Family:Araceae (arum family)

Kingdom: Plantae (plants)  Subkingdom: Tracheobionta (vascular plants)  Superdivision: Spermatophyta (seed plants)  Division: Magnoliophyta (flowering plants)  Class: Liliopsida (monocotyledons)  Subclass: Arecidae  Order: Arales  Family: Araceae (Arum family)  Genus: Spathiphyllum (peace lily)  Species: Spathiphyllum wallisii

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Peace Lily, is a very popular indoor houseplant. It is a clump-growing herbaceous perennial which produces white flowers which look like the hood of a cobra. Leaves are shiny and glossy, attractive even with no spathes. Peace lilies are sturdy plants with glossy, dark green oval leaves that narrow to a point. The leaves rise directly from the soil. The long-lasting flowers start out pale green and slowly turn creamy white as they open. Keep the leaves clean with water washes to remove dust and dirt. Peace Lily can attract mites, scales and mealy bugs so cleaning will help keep these pests away.

Temperature:	Average room temperature’s are fine. Avoid lower than 55°F/12°C in the winter.
Light:	As mentioned above they like light, however, direct sunshine can damage plant leaves. A mixture of light and shade is great, if you can provide it. If you see the leaves yellowing this could be caused by too much sunlight.
Watering:	This plant does drink a lot of water in the summer. Keeping the soil moist (not over watered) and allowing it to dry slightly near the top is a good idea. If in the winter the soil stays slightly damp for a couple of weeks or more, that’s ok , dont water any more. Your plant will let you know when it needs more.
Soil:	A peat based potting mix with perlite is ideal or other peat based mixes.
Re-Potting:	Re-potting each spring is the usual drill.
Fertilizer:	Feed every 2 weeks with a diluted liquid plant food from spring until fall.
Humidity:	Misting leaves regularly will improve humidity and keep it happy.
Propagation:	When the plant is being re-potted the main plant can be divided and potted, to grow smaller plants.
Pruning:	These plants rarely need pruning…well, not at all, to reduce size anyway. You will need to cut away dying leaves and the flowers when they have seen better days and that should be about it.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom	Plantae  – plantes, Planta, Vegetal, plants
	Subkingdom	Viridiplantae  – green plants
	Infrakingdom	Streptophyta  – land plants
	Superdivision	Embryophyta
	Division	Tracheophyta  – vascular plants, tracheophytes
	Subdivision	Spermatophytina  – spermatophytes, seed plants, phanérogames
	Class	Magnoliopsida
	Superorder	Ranunculanae
	Order	Ranunculales
	Family	Ranunculaceae  – buttercups, boutons d’or, crowfoot
	Genus Species	𝘿𝙚𝙡𝙥𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙪𝙢 L. – larkspur 𝙧𝙤𝙮𝙡𝙚𝙞

Local name: Mori, Royle’s Larkspur

Royle’s Larkspur is a herb 0.5-1 m tall, with stem simple or with a few branches, densely bristly. Sepals are deep blue, bristly, upper sepal 1.3-1.4 cm x 8-9 mm, pointed, spur 1.5-1.6 cm long, 3-3.5 mm wide at base, cylindric, horizontal, lateral sepals broadly elliptic-ovate, obtuse, 15 x 16 mm, lower sepals 15-16 x 8-9 mm, subovate, pointed. Upper petals pale, lamina glabrous, oblique, 8 mm long, shallowly bidentate, spur 14 mm long, lower petals with deep blue, bearded, roundish lamina 6 mm long, lobed for 3 mm, claw 5 mm long. Stamens 5-7 mm long, subglabrous. Stalks of lower leaves are about 10 cm, blade 5-8 cm in diameter, palmately multiply-cut, segments wedge-shaped, sharply incised, with lobes 1.5-3 mm wide, pointed, upper leaves smaller, shortly stalked to subsessile. Inflorescence is composed of a long, dense central raceme and few short looser lateral racemes. Bracts linear, 5-10 mm long, pedicels 10-25 mm long, recurved at apex, bracteoles 2.5-3 mm, near base of pedicel. Follicles 3, strigose, 10-15 x 3-4 mm wide. Seeds 1 mm long, 3-angled, usually with 5 rows of scales. Royle’s Larkspur is found in Pakistan and Kashmir.

Flowering: July-August.

Ethnomedicinal uses: Seeds are used as insecticide and treatment of skin eruptions.

Delphinium roylei Munz.

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