Thanks a lot, Lalithamba ji. On 4 November 2017 at 21:09, Lalithamba Avadhanam <alalitha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I wish to add one more species to Loganiaceae > > *Plant name: Strychnos colubrina* L., > > *Ver.names:* Snake wood tree (Eng.); Naagamushti(Tel.) > > *Family:* Loganiaceae > > *Description: * > > Large climbing deciduous shrub; bark gray, rough, lenticelled. Tendril > bifid, woody, thickened upward. Leaves opposite; lamina ovate-elliptic, > 6-10 × 3-5cm, coriaceous, base acute, or rounded, margin entire, apex > acute; basally 3 nerved. Flowers greenish-yellow in axillary, small > compound puberulous cymes. Berry crustaceous, seeds 1 or 2 discoid. > > *Habitat & location:* Rare. Found in hill side forests. Photographed at > Rapur-Kutalamarri. > > *Flowering period:* June-August. > > *Medicinal Uses**:* The root is used as an antidote for snake poison. > Root wood is used to alleviate pains and swellings in indigenous system of > medicine. > > *Toxicity:* Fruit is poisonous. > > thank you > > regards > > A.Lalithamba > > -- > 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 indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- With regards, J.M.Garg 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the world- around 2800 members & 2,65,000 messages on 31.3.17) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 12,000 species & 2,50,000 images). The whole world uses my Image Resource <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. -- 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 indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
