Family: AsclepiadaceaeDistribution: Limited to India, found over hedges and bushes. Photographed at A.Sagaram hills of Andhra Pradesh.. Tubers and leaves are eaten and considered to be tonic and digestive. Because of excessive utilisation it is rarely found. Twining herbs. Tuberous roots are 3-4cm across, globose. Leaves thick, 2-5x1.5-2.5 cm orbicular, base acute; Flowers 1.5-2cm long purple i 2-4cm long lateral umbellate cymes. Flower-Sepals 5, Petals 5,base inflated then cyllindric, lobes short, tips connate, staminal corona double,short, included at the base, pollen masses waxy, ovary bicarpellary. Fruit a pair of smooth follicles. Reference: Flora of presidency of Madras by J.S Gamble, ENVIS, Flora of Nellore district By B.Suryanarayana &A.S Rao
Taxonomy Family: Asclepiadaceae Order: Gentianales Series: Bicarpellatae Sub class; Gamopetalae Class: DicotyledonaeDistribution: Found in rocky areas of tropical southern India. It is small cactoid herb. Latex milky, Flowers in terminal racemes. A pair of follicles formed from each flower. The shoots are sour to taste.
Also one of the species known as Carrion Plants due to its smell, which it uses to attract flies. Native to South Africa. Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix.
