Madagascar flower, Catharanthus roseus
Bright eyes, Cape periwinkle, Graveyard plant, Madagascar periwinkle, Old maid, Pink periwinkle.
USES
•Ornamental plant
•used against several diseases
• In traditional Chinese medicine extracts
from it have been used against numerous
diseases including diabetes, malaria,
and Hodgkin's lymphoma
CLIMATE & SOIL
•The cosmopolitan distribution of the
plant shows that it can grow in a
variety of soils and climates. Growth
is better in tropical and sub-tropical
areas.
•The plant also grows in sub-tropical
areas of northern India but the
growth is slow due to extremely low
temperature during the winter.
•It can be grown in any type of soil
except those which are highly saline,
alkaline or water-logged.
•Light soils, which are rich in humus,
are preferable for large scale
cultivation, since harvesting of the
roots become easy.
•A well distributed rainfall of 100 cm
or more is ideal if the plant is to be
grown as a rainfed crop.
Apocynaceae family
Catharanthus roseus is a species of flowering
plant in the dogbane family Apocynaceae. It
is native and endemic to Madagascar, but
grown elsewhere as an ornamental and
medicinal plant, a source of
the drugs vincristine and vinblastine.It was
formerly included in the genus Vinca as Vinca
rosea. The flowers are pollinated by
Butterflies. The plant is self-fertile.
It is noted for attracting wildlife.
PLATFORM: Evergreen sub
shrub or herbaceous plant
growing 1 m (39 in) tall.
LEAVES
The leaves are oval to oblong,
2.5–9 cm (1.0–3.5 in) long and
1–3.5 cm (0.4–1.4 in) broad,
glossy green, hairless, with a
pale midrib and a short petiole
1–1.8 cm (0.4–0.7 in) long; they
are arranged in opposite pairs.
FLOWERS
The flowers are white to dark
pink with a darker red
centre, with a basal tube
2.5–3 cm (1.0–1.2 in) long
and a corolla 2–5 cm (0.8–
2.0 in) diameter with five
petal-like lobes
Lantana camara, Lantana aculeata Verbenaceae family

L. camara has small tubular

shaped flowers, which each have
four petals and are arranged in clusters in
terminal areas stems. Flowers come in
many different colours, including red,
yellow, white, pink and orange.

PLATFORM
Lantana camara is a
USES small perennial shrub which can
•Lantana camara stalks have been used in grow to around 2 m tall and form
the construction of furniture, such as chairs dense thickets in a variety of
and tables . environments
• Lantana leaves can
display antimicrobial, fungicidal and insectici
dal properties. FLOWERS
•It also attracts butterflies and birds and is Flowers surrounded by an
frequently used in butterfly gardens. involucre of bracts narrowly
ovate, long from 5 to 7 mm,
green. Floral pedicel 6 to 12
mm long. Corolla tube curved
along 10 to 12 mm, with
ascending hairs inside,
opening in the top four
rounded lobes spread 6 to 8
mm in diameter. The first
flower is often white, turning
yellow, orange or pink with
age.
LEAVES
.
The leaves are simple, opposite,
decussate carried by a petiole,
1.5 to 2 cm long. The blade is
leathery, oval to broadly oval
shaped, 5 to 8 cm long and 3-4
cm wide, truncated to subcordate
at the base, acute or acuminate
STEM at the top. Rough and hispid on
Four-angled, covered with the upper surface, pubescent on
short stiff hairs and the lower suface. The leaf margin
is regularly toothed.
recurved prickles.
Pergularia daemia
Asclepias convolvulacea Willd.,Daemia aethiopica Decne,Cynanchum extensum Jacq.
Uses
Pergularia daemia has a
vast application in
different folk medicine
even in the ayurveda and
are believed to increase
defense against various
diseases (Table 3). The
whole plant is used as an
anthelmintic, antiseptic,
antivenin, emmenagogue,
emetic expectorant and
expectorant
Apocynaceae family
The opposite and broadly
ovate to suborbicular leaves
are very variable in size, with
petioles of varying length. The
leaves are almost glabrous
above and velvety below.
In the northern hemisphere the
flowers appear from mid to
late winter, and these are
carried on lateral cymes. The
flower corolla forms a
greenish-yellow or dull white
tube. The fruit mature after
some 13 to 14 months when
they release ovate seeds
covered with velvety hairs.
Erythrina, Erythrina Fabaceae family

Erythrina leaves are used as food plants

by the larvae of
some Lepidoptera species including
the swift moth Endoclita damor and
the woolly bears Hypercompe
eridanus and Hypercompe icasia.
The mite Tydeus munsteri is a pest on the
coastal coral tree
Uses
Erythrina abyssinica is
well known as
a medicinal plant. The
bark is most commonly
used in
traditional medicine, to
treat snakebites, malaria,
sexually transmittable
diseases such as syphilis
and gonorrhoea,
amoebiasis, cough, liver
inflammation, stomach-
ache, colic and measles.