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Asparagus adscendens Roxb.
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- Synonym:
- Plant Family:
- Asparagaceae.
- Habit & Habitat:
- A perennial,spiny, subshrub up to 100 cm tall, found in sub-tropical zone.
- Plant Description:
- Root tuberous.Young branches ash gray to white. Spines straight and woody. Stem modified in to leaf-like structures called cladodes,which are many,filiform, mostly5-20 in number.Inflorescence a raceme,4-8 cm long.Flower actinomorphic, bisexual,white, subsessile.Fruit a berry,dark red, 4-5mm in diameter.
- Flowering and Fruiting:
- September-November.
- Harvesting Time:
- November-December.
- Medicinal Value:
- Useful in dysentery and diarrhea. Locally it is used in impotency for its aphrodisiac properties and as a general body tonic. A local recipe of boiled tubers has been introduced in area.
- Part Used:
- Root.
- Occurrence:
- Uncommon.
- Future Perspective:
- Conservation, Cultivation, Herbal Pharmacy, Allopathic. Pharmacy.
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