Is it in cultivation or in wild. doesn't look like R. verticillata, pls give more clear photos
regards, On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Mayur Nandikar <mayurnandi...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello to all, > > *Rauvolfia verticillata** (Lour.) Baill.* > > Photograph taken at Patgaon, Dist: Kolhapur (Maharashtra) > > Date: 24/07/2011 > > > > Description from *Flora of > China*<http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200018456> > > *Dissolena verticillata* Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. 1: 137. 1790; *Cerbera > chinensis* Sprengel; *Ophioxylon chinense*Hance; *Rauvolfia altodiscifera* > Miau, *R. brevistyla* Tsiang; *R. cambodiana* Pierre ex Pitard; *R. > chinensis* (Sprengel) Hemsley; *R. latifrons* Tsiang; *R. perakensis* King > & Gamble; *R. superaxillaris* P. T. Li & S. Z. Huang; *R. taiwanensis* > Tsiang; *R. verticillata* var. *hainanensis* Tsiang; *R. verti-cillata* > var. *oblanceolata* Tsiang; *R. verticillata* var. *officinalis*Tsiang; *R. > yunnanensis* Tsiang. > > Shrubs to 3 m tall, erect, glabrous. Branchlets pale gray, lenticellate. > Lower leaves opposite, terminal leaves in whorls of 3 or 4; petiole 0.5-1.5 > cm; leaf blade narrowly to broadly ovate or oblong, 3.5-25 X 5-13 cm, nearly > papery to membranous; lateral veins 6 or 7 pairs. Cymes rather lax, 3-9 > together; peduncle 2-15 cm. Pedicel 3-6 mm. Corolla white, tube cylindric, > 1-1.8 cm, inflated and villous from middle to throat; lobes broadly elliptic > or ovate, 1-4.5 mm. Stamens inserted at middle of corolla tube. Ovaries > distinct. Drupes ellipsoid or ovoid, distinct, ca. 10 X 5 mm. Seed 1. Fl. > Feb-Oct, fr. Apr-Dec. 2*n* = 22*. > > Used in China to treat snake poisoning, malaria, and typhus. The roots are > used to treat hypertension and as a sedative. > > Distribution: Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, > Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam and China > > Thank you-- > Mr. Mayur D. Nandikar, > Research Student, > Department of Botany, > Shivaji University, > Kolhapur. > -- - H.S. A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone
