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Gigantic swallow wort |
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| Vernacular name | Ark, Madar | |
| Scientific name | Calotropis gigantean (L.) | |
| Family | Asclapidaceae | |
| Season | Kharif | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | Plants are erect, pale, grayish, sub-succulent, laticiferous shrub, covered with white cottony pubescence | |
| Leaves | Simple, opposite deccurrate, subsessile, obovate oblong, obtuse, slightly cordate and auricled at base. | Photo Gallery |
| Flower | Lilac or dull white in lateral or terminal panicles of umbellate cymes |   |
| Fruit/ seed | Follicle, large, inflated, 8x4 cm Many seeds at apex, surrounded by a coma of long slender silky hairs. | |
| Habitat and distribution | Wasteland | |
| Flowering and fruiting | November to July | |
| Associated with | Roadside flora | |
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