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Family:AsclepiadaceaeDistribution: Common in scrub jungles on Euphorbia antiquorum or E.barnaharti. Limited to Peninsular India and Mayanmar.Local name(Telugu): Pullakadalu, Stems are bitter due to extreme sour to taste, It is used for cooling effect. Photographed at N.Konda hill forest of Eastren ghats.Straggling leaf less succulent shrubs.Stems terete, jointed with milky latex, Flowers white, 1cm across in terminal or axillary subsessile umbellate cymes. Calyx 5 partite, Corolla rotate, deeply lobed, corona double, outer membranous, inner fleshy adnate to the stamens, anthers reduced to pollen masses, ovary of 2 carpels.Follicles 8-10cm long, lanceolate, glabrous.Reference: Flora of presidency of Madras by J.S Gamble, ENVIS, Flora of Nellore district By B.Suryanarayana &A.S Rao
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Punda Maria, Limpopo, South Africa
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Family: AsclepiadaceaeDistribution: Rare along the hedges in the forests of hill regions.Photographed at Eastren ghats.Perennial, extensive twining herbs. Leaves 5-12x 3.5-8cm, ovate-cordate, acuminate, hispid. Flowers 2-3,5cm across, fleshy/thick pinkish purple in axillary, pendulous umbellate cymes. Folicles 5-7x3-5cm boat shaped, turgid. Roots are used in uterine problems.Reference: Flora of Nellore district by B.Suryanarayana & A.S.Rao.Flora of presidency of Madras by J.S Gamble, ENVIS
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Limpopo, South Africa
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Limpopo, South Africa
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Punda Maria, Limpopo, South Africa
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Lowveld, Limpopo, South Africa
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Punda Maria, Limpopo, South Africa
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