Indian flowers and herbs

 Vajradanti Barleria prionitis is used for dental problems in Ayurveda. In Sanskrit Vajra means diamond and Danta  meas tooth.. The use o...

I came across tis wild flower in a friend's garden in the Western Ghats. It seems to be a cousin of Gloxinia. It might be a garden es...

 Ensete superbum  is known as Kadu bale in Kannada and Kallvalai in Tamil. It grows in arid, unfertile regions of the Western Ghats. The ...

 Flower of the mangrove tree Bruguiera. Sundarban area is a large wetland area in West Bengal in India and Bangladesh. this area has bee...

Wildflower enthusiasts will be wonderstruck by the beauty of Wallaich's Selenium in the Valley of Flowers. This flower is also known ...

 Velvet bean, Mucuna pruriens is an annual creeper which flowers in November and December. The flower clusters are a beautiful purple and...

 Lichens are composite organisms. In a lichen, algae and cyanobacteria live among the filaments of a fungus, They help each other to surv...