What part of the plant is winged?
On Thursday, May 17, 2012 10:31:50 AM UTC+5:30, shahwon wrote: > > Ephedra alata > Hindi Bandukai, Lastuk,Nangurwal > > A large shura 6-8 feet, with spreading erect branches, leaves worled, > branchlets hispid, sheath joints bifid, neuminate, inalecatkins, clustered, > sessile or stalked, femaile solitary, fruit vopid. > > Common in the plains of Punjab and Sindh, In the salt range scending 2,500 > ft nd also > on the hills and plaiins of Baluchistan,Afghanistan and Iran, used for > snuff in Khyber Pass. The branches and flowers are considered stypie and > the fruit is said to be mucilaginous, edible,subacid and slighty pungent. > > > <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-IHAI9S2w8Wc/T7SGL-Z9c1I/AAAAAAAAA50/PDrcNK31f9U/s1600/Ephedra+alata.JPG> > Source Plants a nd Drugs of Sindh by James Murray Printed 1881 >
