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Plant Details
Scaevola taccada Roxb.

Synonyms : Scaevola frutescens. S. koenigii

Family : Goodeniaceae

Parts Used : Fruit , Leaf , Bark , Stem

Vernacular Names :-

English : Fan flower
Malayalam : Bhadraksham
Tamil : Vellamuttagam

Distribution and habitat: Throughout West coast, near the sea and India.

Botany: A shrub with stem and branches stout. 

  • Leaves : Large band fleshy, 7.5-12.5 cm, alternate, silky or glabrousent, tufted in the axils.
  • Flowers : White in colour, cymes axillary, much shorter than the leaves; bracts small. Corolla-tube narrow, pubescent; lobes lanceolate. Indusium of the stigmaceliate.
  • Drupe:  sub-spherical, very succulent.

Uses: Sore eyes, anti tumour, carminative, anti- inflammatory, tuberculosis  etc