Saturday, September 18, 2010

Katu karadu


Acanthaceae
Barleria lupulina 

Hophead, Philippine Violet  E
Ranwan katukaradu   S

Hophead is a popular medicinal plant distributed in many part of the island. Shrubbery plant with single dark green leaves, red-brown branches, and flowers that bloom in upright spikes. It is an erect shrub with smooth, hairless stems and leaves. wide. Flowers occur in a terminal spike with overlapping bracts which are broadly ovate corolla tube

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