Crossandra infundibuliformis
Binomial Name - Crossandra infundibuliformis
Common Name - Firecracker
Tamil Name - Kanakambaram ( கனகாம்பரம் )
Family - Acanthaceae
Place - Kunichampet, Pondicherry, India
Date - June 2015
Uses
---> Kanakambaram is the favourite flowers of ladies to put in their hair.
---> Leaf paste applied for toothache.
---> Bark ground with turmeric and the paste applied to skin diseases of children.
---> Crushed fruits made into a paste for brushing teeth to cure pyorrhea.
---> Root paste applied around vagina to cure venereal diseases, syphilis.
---> Flowers ground with pepper and the paste applied to wounds. Aphrodisiac.
---> The plant is claimed to have aphrodisiac properties.
---> It is most attractive to insect pollinators such as the butterflies and dragonflies.
This striking plant, also known as Crossandra undulifolia, is a small shrub from the rain forests of southern India and Sri Lanka.From spring to late fall, the flowers—in shades of yellow, orange, and red—rise in twos and threes from upright tufts of green bracts.
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