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.