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Carissa carandas

Scientific Name
Carissa carandas
Family Name
Apocynaceae
Common Names
Karaunda
Local Names
Karaunta (India), Maha karamba (Sri Lanka)
Description
A large dichotomously branched evergreen shrub with short stem and strong thorns inpairs. Leaves smiles, opposite, elliptic or obovate, shortly mucronate, glabrous,shining and coriaceous. Flowers white, in pubescent terminal corymbose cymes.Fruits ellipsoid or globose berries, purplish black when ripe enclosing two or moreseeds. (India)
A small tree or a large shrub, with numerous, divaricate branches and vcry sharphorizontal spines, often branched; leaves simple, opposite, oblong-oval or oblong-lanceolate, 2.5-6.2cm long, subacute at base, obtuse at apex, glabrous, thin; flowersregular, bisexual in threes, shortly stalked in clusters at the cads of short, axillary andterminal peduncles; bract small, linear; sepals 5, fused, puberulous, segments linear orlanceolate, acute and ciliate; petals 5, fused into a corolla-tube, lobes obiong-lanceolate, acute, spreading, contorted, over lapping to the right; stamens 5, distinct,inserted in the corolla-tube, included; ovary superior, 2-locular; style simple; stigmaconical; fruit a smooth, ovoid, bluntly pointed, reddish-purple berry, 1.8-2.5cm longwith four seeds.Flowers during March (Sri Lanka)
Uses
Anthelmintic, intestinal worms, scabies, diarrhoea, ant-catarrhal, fever, anti scorbutic,appetizing, ant-catarrhal, braining sensations, skin diseases, scabies (India)
Diarrhoea, ear ache, anti scorbutic, stomachic, itch, syphilitic, sore throat, fever (SriLanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Remarks
Carissa carandas (IPNI)

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