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| Vernacular name | Kasturi bhindi | |
| Scientific name | Abelmoschus moschatus (L.) Medic (Syn. Hibiscus abelmoschus L.) | |
| Family | ||
| Season | Kharif | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | Erect hispid herbs or undershrubs, 0.5-2.5 meters high, with a long slender tap root. | |
| Leaves | Leave extremely variable, lower suborbicular in outline, cordate, lower or palmately 3-7 lobed, upper narrower, hastate or sagittate at the base with linear-oblong or triangular lobes | Photo Gallery |
| Flower | Flowers regular, bisexual, involucral bracts 8-12, hairy yellow with purple centre | |
| Fruit/ seed | Fruits capsule fulvous hairy, oblong lanceolate, acute. Seeds subreniform and blackish | |
| Habitat and distribution | Moist places | |
| Flowering and fruiting | August - Novenber | |
| Associated with | Bund of cropped areas | |
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