🌱 *Know ur plants and trees* 🌳

🍁 *Botanical name*
*Crombretum Indicum*

🍁 *Local names*
*Madhumalati, Chinese Honeysuckle, Rangoon Creeper, etc*

*Salient features*

*Madhumalati*, a creeper found in tropical Asia is also a medicinal plant widely used in Ayurveda. It is a night blooming fragrant flowering creeper and its uniqueness is its blooms in white colour which slowly changes to pink and lastly becomes dark pink. It blooms from April to Oct/Nov in bunches. Nowadays they come in multi petal flowers as well and a different garden drawf bush pot variety is also available…the leaf is smaller in this variety. The regular variety prefers ground and will bloom only once it climbs to a 3-5 feet above ground. *This is one of the 21 medicinal plant leaf offered to Ganpati during the present festivities.*

💚 *Health benefits*

👉 Flower is used in Ayurveda for stomach ailments, cough treatment as well as diabetes, etc
👉Leaves r used for toothache, kidney ailments, harmone imbalance, skin tone, etc.
*A tea made of madhumalati flower and leaves daily improves immunity.*

PS: Tips r shared for awareness of our tree/plant benefits. All tips to be followed under advise of a medical practitioner.
🙏 *Thank You*🙏