As Gurcharan ji mentioned, this species is often confused with I. mauritiana, hence the name I. digitata L. (native to S.America) has been incorrectly treated as synonymous to I. mauritiana (a widely distributed species) in the past.
As far as I know, Vidari Kanda is actually Ipomoea mauritiana<https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/indiantreepix/3cer0rCNHiM>(= I. digitata auct non L.; = I. paniculata) and not I. digitata L. Regards Vijayasankar ------------------------------------------------------------------- Vijayasankar Raman, Ph.D. National Center for Natural Products Research University of Mississippi On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:50 PM, Gurumurthi <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks to Gurcharan jee for the detailing. > This is called *Vidari Kanda* in Coastal Karnataka, and is excessively > used in the preparation of Chyavan prash, an Ayurvedic Tonic. Often it is > cultivated in the Areca gardens too. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
