Common name: Climbing Nettle, Indian Stinging Nettle, Canchorie root-plant • Assamese: dumuni chorat • Bengali: বিছুটি bichuti • Hindi: बढन्त barhanta, पीत पर्णी pit parni • Kannada: ತುರಿಕೆ ಬಳ್ಳಿ turike balli • Malayalam: ചൊറിയണം coriyanam • Marathi: आग पान aag paan, आग्या aagya, कळलावी kallaavi, लघुमेडशिंगी laghumedhshingi • Nepali: उट कटेरी ut kateri • Oriya: kasalakku • Sanskrit: आगमावर्ता aagmavarta, दुःस्पर्ष duhsparsha, कषाग्निः kashagnih, वृश्चिकाच्छद vrischikacchad, वृश्चिकाली vrischikali, वृश्चिकापत्री vrischikapatri • Tamil: காஞ்சொறி kanchori • Telugu: తేలుకొండిచెట్టు telukondicettu
Botanical name: Tragia involucrata Family: Euphorbiaceae (Castor family)
Climbing Nettle is a perennial twinning herb, covered with stinging hairs.
Alternately arranged leaves are oblong-lanceolate or ovate, toothed, base
heart-shaped or rounded, tip long pointed. Flowers are borne in racemes in
leaf axils. Female flowers are few, in lower part of inflorescence; male
flowers ae many in the upper part. Fruit is a 3-lobed capsule, containing
3 round smooth seeds.
Medicinal uses: Roots are useful in pruritic skin eruptions,
veneral diseases, diabetes, guinea worms. Leaves are supposed to be good
for cephalagia.
Identification credit: Dinesh Valke & Prashant Awale
| Photographed at Lonavala & Kas, Satara, Maharashtra. |
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