Hi amazing Nature community. today I want to talk about the "
Calotropis-gigantea" :
"Calotropis-gigantea" It is a large shrub that can reach 4 meters in height with milky stems. The leaves, light green in color, are oval in shape. The flowers, white or lilac in color and waxy in appearance, appear grouped, forming clusters.
Each consists of five pointed petals and a small elegant "crown" rising from the center, from which the stamens emerge. The fruit is a follicle that when dry allows the dispersal of seeds by the wind. This plant hosts a wide variety of insects and butterflies. Applications In Thailand the flowers are used for various floral arrangements due to their long duration.
In India it is also common in flower arrangements in temples. Medicinal properties The root bark and flowers are used in traditional medicine.
The root bark is tonic, sudorific, antispasmadic and expectorant, in high doses it is an emetic. The flowers are used as a digestive, stomachic and tonic. The milky juice from the stems is poisonous.🔗
I particularly love this plant. What the article does not mention is that in Venezuela it is considered "mountain" and mostly poisonous, I do not know anyone who uses it medicinally. It has fascinated me since I was little, I was born and raised in the countryside, so together with my sisters we put together bouquets of flowers, sometimes as a wedding bouquet, other times as queens with flowers on their heads or as decorations in the center of a wedding table. our lunch. Many times we used to bring lots of flowers to mom to decorate the house, preferably the dinner table. dining room as we had seen on television. However, my mother placed them on the altar of religious figures, which she kept until her last days. I was the only one who loved this bush, so over time I started to make huge bouquets for myself and put them next to my bed. This flower has a mild and pleasant scent. The annoying part is the milky stem, but I washed it all off with soap haha and it worked, easily lasted over a week.
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