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Main Photo of The Weed |
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| Vernacular name | Safedak | |
| Scientific name | Calotropis procera (Ait.) R. Br. | |
| Family | ||
| Season | Kharif | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | It is shrub, smaller than Caltropis gigantean, heavier type plant. | |
| Leaves | Simple, opposite, deccurate, sub-sessile, oblong and acute. | Photo Gallery |
| Flower | Pink, spotted with purple in long peduncled umbel, bunds are globose, corolla scales with purple, follicles recurved. | |
| Fruit/ seed | Broadly ovate, flattened, tomentose, comose. | |
| Habitat and distribution | Wasteland weeds | |
| Flowering and fruiting | October to June | |
| Associated with | Road side flora | |
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