Medicinal Plants

Salix tetrasperma, commonly called Indian willow, is a medium-sized tree of wet and swampy places, shedding its leaves at the end of monsoon season. It flowers after leafing. The bark is rough, with deep, vertical fissures and the young shoots lea...

The tree can attain height about 25 m and girth up to 1.7 m. Tree trunk will be covered with sharp stout thorns at its base. Young parts of the tree is hirsute and young leaves are reddish. Leaves are simple and shows alternate phyllotaxy Flacourt...

The Water Jasmine is a tropical tree species which is native to China, Indochine and Malaysia and can become up to 20 ft tall. It has a smooth grey bark and prominent surface roots. In Southeast Asian countries the water jasmine is often used for ...

  Santalum album is a small tropical tree, and the traditional source of sandalwood oil. It is native to Indonesia (Java and the Lesser Sunda Islands), the Philippines, and Western Australia. It is commonl...

This balm contains clinacanthus nutans leaves, this plant is used as anti-snake venom by traditional healers in Thailand. This herb is excellent for healing, treatment of skin disorders (such as psoriasis and eczema), revitalizing c...

Tylophora indica, a medicinal climber, belongs to the family, Asclepiadaceae. Roots and leaves of the plant contain several alkaloids including tylophorine, tylophorinine and tylophrinidine. The major alkaloid, tylophorine found in  People take Ty...

Tinospora cordifolia commonly named as “Guduchi” in Sanskrit belonging to family Menispermaceae is a genetically diverse, large, deciduous climbing shrub with greenish yellow typical flowers, found at higher altitude. In racemes or racemose panicl...

Ding Hou. First published in Blumea 27: 327 (1981) The native range of this species is India, Sri Lanka. It is a shrub and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome. The traditionally used medical plant Thottea siliquosa is often used against infl...

BOTANIC DESCRIPTION Thespesia populnea is a shrub or medium-sized evergreen tree, up to 20 m tall with a dense crown. Bark greyish. Twigs densely covered with brown to silvery scales, glabrescent. Leaves alternate, simple; petiole 5-8 (max. Thespe...

BOTANIC DESCRIPTION Terminalia bellirica is a large deciduous tree to 50 m tall and a diameter of 3 m with a rounded crown. The frequently buttressed bole at the base is branchless up to 20 m. The bark is bluish or ashy-grey covered with numerous ...

  Tectona grandis is a tall, deciduous tree found in south and southeast Asia. Growing up to 50 metres and living for 100 years, teak is coveted for its attractive colour and grain, durability, strength, r...

Strobilanthes is a genus of about 350 species of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, mostly native to tropical Asia and Madagascar, but with a few species extending north into temperate regions of Asia. Many species are cultivated for thei...

Strobilanthes heyneanus, an aromatic herb found in South India, has been extensively studied for its anti-inflammatory property. The oil prepared from the plant is reported to be effective in various inflammatory conditions

Herbaceous perennial with a creeping growth habit. Silvery green, ovate (egg-shaped) to cordate (heart-shaped) leaves have purple leaf tips and underside. The upper leaf surface is more silvery green in shade, but more purple near the leaf tips in...

Stevia is a tender perennial herb that reaches 30.5–80 cm (1–2.5 feet) in height. The oblong aromatic leaves are 2.5 cm (1 inch) long with a prominent midrib and are arranged oppositely along the stems. The small tubular flowers have five white pe...

Leaves 5-12 x 4-7 cm, ovate or ovate-oblong, sinuately to deeply lobed, base rounded or unequal, apex subacute, sparsely stellate-hairy above, stellate-woolly beneath, prickly on the nerves; petiole to 2.5 cm long. Flowers bluish-violet in extra-a...

Description and EthnobotanyHerbaceous erect shrub, up to 0.6m height when grown in ground. Spreads by underground creeping rhizomes. Fronds green, scaly and tripinnate. Long wiry branching stems, imparting fluffy appearance to plant. In terms of ...

Schleichera oleosa - Kusum Tree. Kusum is a beautiful tree with a broad, shady crown, found widespread in Tropical Himalayas (Punjab to Nepal), India, Ceylon, Burma, Thailand, Indo-China, Malaysia. This tree is mostly noticed because of its bright...