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Peth Kothaligad, September 2021 :: Plant for ID :: ARK2022-008: 5 images.
This was clicked at Peth Kothaligad hill fort near Karjat, MH in September 2021.
I strongly suspect, the leaves of this plant to be very similar to the ones I posted at Pali near Khopoli, MH :: Vegetable for ID :: ARK2019-60, although this has been clicked at a completely different location. The leaves are so similar.
No fruiting or flowering seen on this plant.
Requested to please ID.
And also suggest whether the plants in both these posts could be the same.
This plant is sometimes known as Brahmadandi and it seems to have several ethnomedicinal applications and possibly nutritional uses as well. If you saw the larger leaves for sale only in the month of August this would tally with the emergence of the tender new leaves before the plant shoots up and becomes more rigid.
Thanks … for this exhaustive analysis.
That post also troubles me and hence when I saw this plant, I thought may be it will help us to id those leaves as well.
Dinesh ji’s site gives a local name to Tricholepis glaberrima – दहाण dahan
Could this match with the name that the vegetable seller gave me – Dhanni/Dhamni or the like? I wonder.
The vegetable pics were clicked on August 24th 2019 and this plant was clicked on 26th September 2021.
I will always be on the lookout for this at other places, but that will have to wait now till next year’s rains.
Well done for finding the plant in the field as well.
This does not look like Tricholepis glaberrima DC.
Probably leaf of Corchorus species.
reminds me of jute // pat saag
Jute is manufactured from fibres of Corchorus olitorius/ capsularis
I know that but in markets its called jute saag, including in queens any where the Bangladeshis come to sell and buy these.
However, I do not think this is Corchorus aestuans or olitorius, particularly based on the venation of the leaves. I clicked a Corchorus just close by and the venation is different. See attached.
To me appears some Urticaceae member ?
Noted with thanks. But no clue …
My guess was Corchorus,
I feel it could be Corchorus urticifolia, or a Laportea sp……. it strongly resembles Laportea inrterrupta I have seen.
Leaf venation of Corchorus urticifolius looks different from High resolution specimen from India from GBIF.
Leaf venation also does not matches with Laportea interrupta
Perilla frutescens ??
I do not think matches with Perilla
It does look like Perilla.
I can’t think of any wild local plant it might be. I had shown the images to local people who all shook their heads. They did not recognise the plant.
They are tender leaves of Clerodendrum serratum = Rotheca serrata
commonly known as Bharangi and often sold in local markets early monsoon. Tender leaves are consumed in Konkan while flowers are consumed up in Sahyadris.
I guess not !
Maybe Tricholepis glaberrima as per discussions at Peth Kothaligad, September 2021 :: Plant for ID :: ARK2022-008
Is it used as vegetable as mentioned by …?
This does not look like Tricholepis glaberrima DC.
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