Synonym |
Physalis somnifera Linn. |
Flower Color |
Greenish |
Common Name |
Winter cherry |
Flower Type |
Cyme |
English / Trade Name |
Winter cherry, Indian Ginseng |
Flowering Period |
April-June |
Vernacular /Local Name |
Ashwagandha |
Fruiting Period |
July-Sept |
Altitude |
Upto 1500 m |
Fruit Type |
Berry |
Habit |
Shrub |
Fruit Details |
A globose berry, orange, overtopped by the inflated, accrescent calyx; seeds discoid, trigonous. |
Habitat |
Cultivated |
Bark Type |
Smooth |
Distribution |
From the Mediterranean through tropical Africa to South Africa and from the Canary and Cape Verde Islands to the Middle East and Arabia, India, Sri Lanka and southern China. |
Bark Details |
Greyish green in colour and covered with short, fine, silver-grey, branched hairs |
Distribution in Haryana |
Ambala, Bhiwani, Faridabad, Fatehabad, Gurgaon, Hisar, Jhajjar, Jind, Kaithal, Karnal, Kurukshetra, M. Garh, Mewat, Morni-Pinjore, Palwal, Panipat, Rewari, Rohtak, Sirsa, Sonepat, Yamuna Nagar |
Origin |
Native |
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Leaf Type |
Simple |
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Leaf Arrangement |
Alternate (leaves born singly along stem) |
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Leaf Shape |
Elliptic |
Description of Species |
A suffruticose shrub, 60-90 cm tall. Branches ascending. Shoots stellate-tomentose. Leaves , elliptic-ovate to broadly ovate, acute, cuneate or oblique, entire to repand. Petiole 10-20 mm long. Flowers sessile to subsessile, greenish-yellow, in axillary clusters of 2-5.Calyx, stellately hairy, becoming glabrescent and membranous; teeth 1-1.5 mm long, up to 8 mm in fruit, acute. Corolla lobes triangular, tomentose to the outside. Anthers sub included; filaments 1-2.5 mm long. Berry globose, red. Seeds sub pyriform to reniform, minutely reticulate-foveolate, yellowish-brown. |
Leaf Details |
Leaves elliptic-ovate to broadly ovate, acute, cuneate or oblique, entire to repand. Petiole 10-20 mm long. |
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