Bio Diversity Park

Common Name : Crown Flower

Hindi Name : सफ़ैद आक | Scientific Name : Calotropis gigantea
Family : Apocynaceae
Uses : It can help relieve mild to severe skin woes, and digestive, respiratory, and neurological disorders. It has also been highly beneficial when used to treat fevers, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhoea. The milky latex of the herb is used in preventing cancers. It has also been an effective antidote to cure snake bites.
Native: Indian Subcontinent, Southern China, Malaysia, Indonesia
General Description:

Shrubs, stem rounded. Leaves 10-16x8-10cm, smaller in branchlets; elliptic-ovate to obovate, apex acute or obtuse, base cordate; lateral nerves 5-7 pairs, adpressed pubescent when young, becoming glabrous on maturity. Flowers pale purple or greenish-white, 3cm across; pedicels to 3cm long, stout; calyx lobes to 3mm long; corolla campanulate, tube short, lobes ovate to oblong, recurved; staminal corona of 5 vertical lobes, 1cm long. Fruit saccate, to 6x3cm, ovoid; seeds many.