Thursday, March 12, 2009

Clitoria ternatea / APARAJITA - Medicinal Plants - Morphology

Clitoria ternatea / APARAJITA - Medicinal Plants - Morphology


Morphology


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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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