Good to see this new plant On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 1:00 PM, prasad dash <[email protected]>wrote:
> Dear members sharing another wild edible fruit plant *Olax scandens* > > Name of the species: Olax scandens > Family: Olaceae > Place of collection: Ranpur, Nayagarh, Orissa > Altitude: 200 m above msl > Habit: Shrub > Habitat: Wild, Dry deciduous to moist deciduous forests > Description: Scandent shrub, up to 5 m high, leaf simple, alternate, > oblong-lanceolate, inflorescence in axillary racemose panicle, flowers > white, fruit drupaceous, ovoid. > > Uses: The fresh young leaves are cooked as leafy vegetable and also chewed > during mouth ulcer and the fruit is edible when ripe. Apart from this there > are many other medicinal uses of this plant reported from this region. > > Regards > > Prasad > > > -- > Prasad Kumar Dash > Ecologist, Orissa, India > email: [email protected] > ph. 09437444241 > -- Dr Satish Phadke
