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2018-02-17 02:17

Scientific Name: Calicarpa Candicans

Callicarpa means beautiful fruit
Candican is the latin word for whitish.

English Name: Malabar Hoary

Tigaw is the Cebuano term of the Malabar Hoary,a shrub that grows abundatly on vacant lots and thickets all over the archipelago.

The shrub has a purplish or lavender flower,the leaves are oval in shape and bears a green round small fruit that turns lavender when ripened.

Common uses in the Philippines;

Roots- root decotion is taken to relieve or treat stomachache and given as wash to relieve skin diseases.
Leaves- leaves are smoked and used to relieve asthma.

In fishponds Tigau Leaves are pounded to paralyzed fish and its fruits are used to poisoned chickens.

2018-02-17 02:17

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