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 Wild Flowers of Malaysia

Family:- TACCACEAE

Species :- Tacca cristata

Local names:- Black Lily, Belimbing tanah

 

 

Flower from a small plant found in area of old, damp undergrowth. In secondary forest of well drained, undulating terrain! The plant can grow to the height of 60 cm. Used as a medicinal herb locally to treat a large range of ailment like high blood pressure and post natal recovery and releasing "wind" from the body. In other application, extracts from the tuber and roots is mixed that Goniothalamus malayanus for treatment of the kidney. The saps from the leaves for skin disease. A common plant but flowers during certain seasons. Other times termed as Tacca intergrifolia

The color of the Petal should be dark maroon, may varies from pale to a strong reddish brown, depending on  the time of  its maturity

 


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