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Green Shrimp Plant
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Common name: Green Shrimp Plant, ice crossandra, blue fox tail nail dye, green ice crossandra, turquoise crossandra • Assamese: নীলকন্ঠ neelkantha • Bengali: ঝিন্টিকাঁটা jhintikanta, নীল কাঁটা nila kanta, নীল সহচরা nila sahachara, নীল সাথী nila sathi, উদজাতি udjati • Dogri: आसमानी झींगा aasmaani jhingaa • Hindi: उदजति udajati • Kannada: ಕಪ್ಪುಬೊಬ್ಬುಳಿ kappubobbuli, ಕಪ್ಪುಕರ್ಣಿ kappukarni, ಪಚ್ಚಾಂಬ್ರಾ patchambra • Konkani: रान अबोली ran aboli, रोरीझाड rorijhada • Malayalam: കരിംകുറിഞ്ഞി karimkurunni, ഒടിയമടന്ത odiyamadantha • Marathi: धाकटा अडुळसा dhakta adulsa, एकबोली ekboli, रान आबोली ran aboli • Odia: ପିଚୁକାଠ pichukatha • Sanskrit: नील सहचरः nila sahacharah, सैरीयकः sairiyakah • Tamil: நீலாம்பரி nilambari • Telugu: చీకటి కూర తుప్ప cheekatikoorathuppa, నక్కతోక nakkatoka, పచ్చ వాడంబరము pachchavadambaram • Tulu: ಕಪ್ಪುಕರ್ಣಿ kappukarni Source: Names of Plants in India
Botanical name: Ecbolium ligustrinum    Family: Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Synonyms: Ecbolium linneanum, Justicia ecbolium, Justicia ligustrina
Green Shrimp Plant is a shrubby plant, with 4-sided flower-spikes at the end of branches. Bracts are oval, entire, mucronate. Leaves are elliptic-oblong, narrowed at both ends, velvety. Flowers are large, greenish blue. Upper lip of the flower is linear, reflexed. Green Shrimp Plant is found in Mumbai and Konkan region.
Medicinal uses: Plant is used in gout and dysuria; decoction of leaves for stricture. Roots are given in jaundice, menorrhagia and rheumatism.
Identification credit: Navendu Pagé Photographed in Garden of Five Senses, Delhi.
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