Justicia adhatoda

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ID (DSCF3804):
Picture taken in Dudhwa National Park (U.P.), 22/03/2008.

Request for ID : 060611 : AK-1:
Taken at Maharashtra Nature Park, Mumbai, Maharashtra on the 12th of Feb, 2011.
Plant about 4-5 feet in height.
Adulsa?

i think this is Justicia adhatoda अडुळसा 

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Kalatop (dam side) id Al031012:
Location Kalatop, Chamba
Altitude 1200 mts

efloraofindia:”22102011MR3’’ ? Adulsa Pune:

… yes, Justicia adhatoda L. (syn. Adhatoda vasica Nees)
commonly known as: Malabar nut, white vasa, yellow vasa • Assamese: বগা বাহক boga bahok • Bengali: বাসক basak • Gujarati: અરડૂસી aradusi, અરડૂસો araduso • Hindi: अरुस arus, अड़ूसा arusa, प्रामाद्य pramadya, रूस rus, सिंहपर्णी sinh-parni, वाजिनी vajini, विसौटा visauta • Kannada: ಅಡುಸೋಗೆ adusoge • Kashmiri: बहिकथ् bahikath, बाँस bansa, वास wasa • Konkani: अडूलशा adulasha, अडुलसो adulso, अडुसोगे adusoge • Malayalam: ആടലോടകം aatalootakam • Manipuri: nongmangkha angouba • Marathi: अडुळसा adulasa • Mizo: kâwl-dai • Nepalese: असुरो asuro, कालो भासक kalo bhasaka • Oriya: basango, vrysha • Sanskrit: अटरुष atarusa, प्रामाद्य pra-madya, सिंहास्या simhasya, वाजिदंत vaji-danta, वाजिन् vajin, वासका vasaka, वसुक vasuka, वृषा vrsa • Tamil: ஆசலை acalai, ஆடாதோடை atatotai, ஆட்டுசம் attucam, சிம்மமுகி cimma-muki, சிங்கம் cinkam, சுவாது cuvatu, இரத்தபித்தம் iratta-pittam, காட்டுமுருங்கை kattu-murunkai, பாவட்டை pavattai, வாசை vacai, வாசாதி vacati, வைத்தியமாதா vaittiya-mata • Telugu: అడ్డసరము addasaramu

its tricky here, even name i mean Genus Adhatoda is conserved..

Yes … I remember my grandmother giving us Kadha of Adulsa leaves for cough.

But the flowers must be having nektar. Because I remember my mother singing: अडूलश्याची फुले देठांत थेंब गोड. can’t remember how it goes further.

… I do not know this full song but I can help translate what … has written. There is a drop of sweetness in the stalk of adulsa flower.

Family: Acanthaceae

Habit: Erect shrub

Habitat:Fringe of the forest

Place of collection: Bhubaneswar, Odisha

Images:

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justicia adhatoda anther and stigma.jpg

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Very illustrative photographs

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We plant this sp. mainly as hedge plant. Because its not eaten by goat, cattle etc.,

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Thanks… for such an illustrative upload, this plant we usually ignore due to its abundance.. but this should not be underestimated on any account..

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Many thanks … for additional information. Thanks … Sir. yes Sir u r right in that aspect, i also did this before joining the group. But now i am not thinking any plant as common or weed. All plant are very useful and beautiful in the eyes of a taxonomist.

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… Adenanthera and Adhatoda: Does Adenanthera vasika exist ? This name is found in quite a few ayurveda-related / trading web sites and is put as synonym of Adhatoda vasica (presently Justicia adhatoda).

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– Adenanthera vasika does not figure in Kew Plant List, IPNI or GRIN, and evidently not a published name. Adenathera is a genus of Fabaceae:Mimosoideae, and looks strange how the two are linked, except for if an illegitimate name if ever published. But then this should be mentioned in at least IPNI and Kew Plant List, which list all published names. But strangely there are so many sources on the net mentioning this name (as synonym of Adhatoda vasica), as mentioned by …

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– … me too had the same doubt … two distinct genera made synonymous must be a blunder somewhere, sometime ago … later on, simply must have got copy-pasted in various instances. Though this matter itself is irrelevant to many who visit those sites … it gives a good idea of errors floating on the internet.

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– Seems to me like a result of one mistake being copied again and again and again….
None of those sites are authentic which shows this plant name on google and none of the authentic sites show this plant.

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– This one example points to a glaring problem in Herbal medicine field.. lack of true scholarship shown by the traders and their webmasters… they just cut and paste… such discrepancy hopefully serves as a red flag to the consumers! I often wonder what can one do? If they are so careless with what they write, how careful can they be with what they put in their bottles?

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Adhatoda vasica:
Malabar Nut Adhatoda vasica from Sinhagad

Acanthaceae Herb Native
Sinhaghad, Pune
Maharashtra
05 Feb 2011

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TEST POST :: PLEASE IGNORE :: 04-MAR-2012 :: SK:
Posting tiny images of *Adhatoda vasica* so that mail size doesn’t exceed0.10 MB. It may work!

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May 18, “Fascination of Plants Day”: Basak Pata Adhatoda vasaka:
This is the plant that had sparked my interest in herbal medicine when I was a wee child…and so I chose this humble plant for my May 18, “Fascination of Plants Day” plant.
As children we had seen these plants on roadsides, by the farms, country lanes, village gardens and as bundles of green leaves sold by the herb vendors in the local vegetable markets.
This highly useful therapeutically important plant with beautiful green foliage and equally fascinating orchid like flowers used to be a common sight in bengal…now we hardly ever see it thanks to the highrises that have taken over and the newly minted owners want not the local flora but plants that are easy to care for …
and we now live in a jungle of crotons and ixoras.
MEET ADAHTODA VASICA or Basak pata
grows to be about 5 feet tall, has shiny green foliage, leaves about 6 inches long…
the flowers are small white with purple markings, its looks reminds one of orchids …
Leaf juice and stembark juice or tea is very useful in Cough, cold, Asthma…and even as an anti- anthelmentic…
Was the main ingredient in Glycodin terp-vasaka, a patented medicine that used to be available in India in the years gone by.
MY PICTURES today are from the flower show earlier this year at the Hort. ANd plant is growing a tub of soil.
That’s a sorry state of affairs …. Hort show will be like like a zoo where we would have to go to see an elephant or a museum where we have to go to see a model of a dodo-bird.

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SYMBIOSIS : 294:
Attaching an image of a Carpenter Bee on the flowers of Adhatoda vasica.

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This is a Bumble bee. The previous one was a Carpenter bee. In India, Bumble bees are generally found in the Himalayas and do not descend below 3000 ft. Bumble bees differ from Carpenter bees by having yellow markings and hairy bodies.

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Adhatoda vasica Nees from Kamrup district, Assam: (7 images)
Attached images are Adhatoda vasica Nees collected from Kamrup district, Assam

Date :15.02.2013

Location: Kamrup district

Family : Acanthaceae

Genus & species :Adhatoda vasica Nees

Habitat: Grows wild on waste places.

Habit : Shrub

Vern. Name : Vahoka -Tita (Assamese)
Flower : White

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Nice photographs … New accepted name is Justicia adhatoda L.

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Hooghly : বাসক (বাকস) : 4 images. 8 posts by 4 authors.
This is Adhatoda vasica of the BENGAL PLANTS.

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 … many many many thanks for putting names of plants in Bangla script. It sure will help the group, and me in compiling the names. Best wishes for maintaining this Bangla-named series of posts.

Thank you …, but Bengali names sometimes can be confusing too!

Photographs are wonderfully taken from different angels. In case zygomorphic flowers specially with bilabiate corolla, we always suggest students to draw 3 views (anterior, posterior and side/lateral facing) of the flower for detail understanding of floral parts.

This would be BAASOK or BAAKAS in English transliteration.

In my childhood i was introduced to this plant as Adusa in hindi.(d to be pronounced as d in daily). I was told this plant is used in cough medicines??
Is it correct.

Justicia adhatoda

basak pata
used for lung and bronchial inflammation
basis of Gylcodin terp vasaka, a cough syrup of yore,.

Another flower/ABDEC49 : 8 posts by 5 authors.
This was growing next to the Foldwings. Please advise.

Justicia adhatoda (Acanthaceae).

Justicia adhatoda

Thank you … It does seem like Justicia adhatoda or the Malabar Nut.

Yes, … Basak patta
the leaves are an important Ayurveda medicine for coughs and colds esp. bronchial  infections and inflammations.
basis for the patent medicine of yore … Gylocdin terp-vasaka
used to come with a red label in a brown /dark ember bottle… strong smell.

i swear by this medicinal herb… worth its weight in gold
try to see if you can find and save the extremely tiny seeds… I would love to see them from the wild…

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Thank you … How do I collect the seeds if I am successful in finding the shrub again?

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with difficulty
I understand they are quite tiny

I think it would be after the last of the flower dries out put a cloth bag over it.. so the seeds don fall off the lower end of the bag must be taped so no seed slithers out…

but… if  the plant cant be found .. se la vie

save the info for the nest time..

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the tiny self seed in the moist and warm areas

that’s why it used to grow along human dwellings near ponds in rural bengal and city outskirts
but all the development has almost made this very useful very common plant rare to see and I get excited when I see it … in real life or as in your pictures’ case…
no need to search for it again.. i thought it was near you.

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अडुळसा in Marathi.
Yes a common ingredient of ayurvedic cough syrups.

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Acanthaceae Fortnight: Justicia adhatoda from Delhi-GSMAR03/04 : 1 post by 1 author.
Justicia adhatodaL.,  Sp. pl. 1:15. 1753 (Acanthaceae)

syn: Adhatoda vasica Nees; Adhatoda zeylanica Medik

Evergreen shrub, leaves elliptic, up to 20 cm long with prominent veins; flowers in axillary pedunculate spikes, white, corolla about 3 cm long, lower lip with reddish markings, upper lip curved.

Dried leaves constitute the drug vasaka used in brochial troubles.

Photographed from Khalsa College, very common on Ridge in Delhi.

Sans: Vasaka ;Hindi: Arusha; Beng: Bakas; Mar: Adulsa; Guj: Alduso; Tel: Adasaramu; Tam: Adadodai; Kan: Adusoge Mal: Atalotakam
Common names: Malabar-nut, Malabar-nut-tree, pavettia

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Acanthaceae fortnight SN 06 Justicia adhatoda L. : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (2)

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I agree with …, Justicia adhatoda, bracts and flowers match