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1. What are the uses of calotropis?
2. Is calotropis poisonous?
3. How do you grow calotropis gigantea?
4. What is the meaning of calotropis?
5. Can we eat calotropis?
6. What is the common name of calotropis?
7. Why is calotropis called milkweed?
8. How do you grow milkweed from cuttings?
9. Where do milkweed plants grow?
10. What foods do caterpillars eat?
11. What is meant by Pollinium?
12. What is Gynostegium?
13. What is Rui plant called in English?
14. What is the meaning of Sodom apple?
15. Which flower is large in size?
16. Is Sodom apple poisonous?
17. What if calotropis milk drops in eyes?
18. How do you use calotropis Procera?
19. What is the common name of alstonia Scholaris?

What are the uses of calotropis?

People use the bark and root bark for medicine. Despite serious safety concerns, calotropis is used for digestive disorders including diarrhea, constipation and stomach ulcers; for painful conditions including toothache, cramps, and joint pain; and for parasitic infections including elephantiasis and worms.

Is calotropis poisonous?

Calotropis is a poisonous plant. The active principles are uscharin, calotoxin, calactin, and calotropin. The leaves and stem when incised yield thick milky juice. It is used as an arrow poison, cattle poison (see also Sutari), rarely for suicide and homicide and mostly an accidental poison.

How do you grow calotropis gigantea?

Plant Propagation Options:

1. Start seeds in late summer and overwinter indoors.
2. Start seeds indoors 2 months before final frost OR.
3. Seed Starting- Use a peat moss mix with vermiculite, perlite or both.
4. Sow seeds after final frost in annual zones.
5. Sow seeds directly in perennial zones.

What is the meaning of calotropis?

: a genus of Asian or African shrubs or trees (family Asclepiadaceae) having bell-shaped flowers with showy keel-shaped hoods and used as fiber plants — see mudar.

Can we eat calotropis?

Calotropis is UNSAFE, especially in high doses. It contains chemicals that can interfere with heart function, particularly at high doses. It can cause serious side effects including vomiting, diarrhea, slow heartbeat, convulsions, and death. It's not known whether it's safe to inhale calotropis smoke.

What is the common name of calotropis?

Common names for the plant include Apple of Sodom, Sodom apple, stabragh, king's crown, rubber bush, and rubber tree.

Why is calotropis called milkweed?

Calotropis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1810. It is native to southern Asia and North Africa. They are commonly known as milkweeds because of the latex they produce. ... Fibers of these plants are called madar or mader.

How do you grow milkweed from cuttings?

Growing Milkweeds from Cuttings

To start cuttings, cut the stems underwater, then coat the bottom of the stem with a strong rooting hormone. The stems should be placed in sand, vermiculite, or potting soil that is kept continuously moist. Cuttings can usually be transplanted in 6-10 weeks.

Where do milkweed plants grow?

It is a widespread and somewhat weedy species known from most of the eastern United States and the eastern most prairie states as well as southern Canada from New Brunswick to Saskatchewan. It is frequently found in fence rows, on roadsides, in fields, and in prairies and pastures.

What foods do caterpillars eat?

But, as many of you know, some caterpillars eat other plant parts, such as flower petals, stems, fruits, roots, pollen, and seeds. Some eat plants you might not imagine caterpillars would consume, like ferns and mosses. Their host plants don't have to be alive in all cases—some caterpillar species eat dead leaves.

What is meant by Pollinium?

A pollinium (plural pollinia) is a coherent mass of pollen grains in a plant that are the product of only one anther, but are transferred, during pollination, as a single unit. This is regularly seen in plants such as orchids and many species of milkweeds (Asclepiadoideae).

What is Gynostegium?

A characteristic and complex structure created by the fusion of the stamens with the stigma is the gynostegium. ... It is a complex structure produced by the fusion of stamens, styles, and surfaces that are stigmatic.

What is Rui plant called in English?

Calotropis gigantea is known as Arka in Sanskrit. It is widely used in many Ayurvedic treatments, both externally (ksharasutra) and internally. It is a very common herb seen widely throughout India. It is called as Madar in English.

What is the meaning of Sodom apple?

1a : a fruit described by ancient writers as externally of fair appearance but dissolving into smoke and ashes when plucked. — called also Dead Sea apple. b : an empty mockery had seen the fruits of victory turn into apples of Sodom— R. M. Lovett.

Which flower is large in size?

The flower with the world's largest bloom is the Rafflesia arnoldii. This rare flower is found in the rainforests of Indonesia. It can grow to be 3 feet across and weigh up to 15 pounds!

Is Sodom apple poisonous?

While African wildlife often run afoul of ranchers and pastoralists securing food and water resources for their animals, the interests of fauna and farmer might finally be unified by the “Sodom apple,” a toxic invasive plant that has overrun vast swaths of East African savanna and pastureland.

What if calotropis milk drops in eyes?

A 27 year old patient reported with Calotropis plant milky sap drop entering into his left eye accidently. He developed an immediate burning sensation, redness of eyes and photophobia. He washed the eyes thoroughly after which the burning improved but his vision slowly reduced over a period of 2 h.

How do you use calotropis Procera?

Uses of Calotropis procera (Ait.) R. Br.

1. Uses from NIF Database.
2. Asthma. Mix the flower powder and triphala churna in 1:4 proportion. ...
3. Ear ache. Put the latex in the ear to cure the pain- R. C. Chowdhary, Nagor, Rajasthan.
4. Stomachache. Smear mustard oil on a leaf and warm. ...
5. Arthritis. ...
6. Skin disease. ...
7. Uses described in Literature.

What is the common name of alstonia Scholaris?

Alstonia scholaris, commonly called blackboard tree or devil's tree in English, is an evergreen tropical tree in the family Apocynaceae.