Clitoria ternatea / APARAJITA - Medicinal Plants - Morphology
Morphology
It is a perennial climber. Leaves- pinnate 5-9 foliolate.
Flowers- showy, blue or white, petals unequal, style bearded below the stigma.
Fruits- pods, linear, compressed.
Seeds- 6-10, black (Flowers in rainy season and fruits in winter).
Distribution & Habitat
Almost throughout India, wild or cultivated. Western - north India (Marwad), Egypt, Syria. Mesopotamia, Iraq. Persia, Arabia, Afghanistan etc. Dates and dhamasa grow in sandy regions.
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