Plumbago zeylanica Hindi-Chitrak/Chitramol, Sanskrit-Chitra/Chitraka, Assamese-Boga agechita, Bengali-Safaid-sitarak, Oriya-Ogni, Marathi-Chitramul, Kannada-Chitramulika/Chitramula, Telugu-Chitramolam/Kodiveli, Tamil-Chita/Karimai/Chittiramoolam, Malayalam-Vellakoduveli, Punjabi-Chitra, Gujarati-Chitrakmula, Popular-White Leadwort/Plumbago/Chitraka Plumbaginaceae
Plumbago zeylanica (Hindi-Chitrak/Chitramol, Sanskrit-Chitra/Chitraka, Assamese-Boga agechita, Bengali-Safaid-sitarak, Oriya-Ogni, Marathi-Chitramul, Kannada-Chitramulika/Chitramula, Telugu-Chitramolam/Kodiveli, Tamil-Chita/Karimai/Chittiramoolam, Malayalam-Vellakoduveli, Punjabi-Chitra, Gujarati-Chitrakmula, Popular-White Leadwort/Plumbago/Chitraka)Plumbaginaceae. It is an evergreen, perennial plant with long and tuberous roots and straight stems growing upto 0.5-1.0 m. It grows throughout India especially in Bengal, UP, South India in moist places. It is distributed as a weed throughout the tropical and subtropical countries of the world. It is native to SE Asia. It is distributed throughout most of the tropics and subtropics growing from sea level upto 2000 m altitude. The leaves are simple, ovate, elliptical or oblong, 0.5-12 cm long, with a tapering base and often with a hairy margin. The flowers are white in elongate spikes and bloom round the year. Fruit is a oblong ...
