Plumbago zeylanica , Chitrak, Plumbago, White leadwort

Plumbago zeylanica
 Common name: 
Chitrak, 
Plumbago, 
White leadwort

Plumbaginaceae -
 Native to SE Asia that grows wild in India and has been used by rural and tribal people for hundreds of years as a traditional system of medicine. The fruits are like a small cocklebur with glue on the soft spines and they will stick to anything. The root and root bark and seeds are used medicinally as a stimulant, caustic, digestion, antiseptic, anti-parasitic. 

Surendra Parihar 

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