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Viscum orientale

Botanical Name: Viscum orientale
Family: Santalaceae
Kingdom: Plantae
Order: Santalales
Genus: Viscum

Synonyms: Viscum montanum, Viscum roxburghianum, Viscum pamattonis

Common Names: Oriental Mistletoe • Hindi: Baandaa *Bengali:Manda• Kannada: Asarebanda, Asura banda, asurabanda, Hasari badanike, Hasum banda • Malayalam: Itthilkanni • Telugu: Bajinika, Chandrabadanika, Chandrabadanika, Kammi badanika, Sundara badanika.

Habitat: Viscum orientale is native to Europe and western and southern Asia. It is a stem parasite plant.

Description:
Viscum orientale is a parasitic shrub with leaves opposite, 8 x 3 cm, spoon-shaped, tip pointed, entire to minutely rounded toothed, basally 3-5 nerved, leathery. Flowers are borne in leaf-axils in triads, lateral flowers male and central flowers female; bracts 1.5 mm, ovate. Male flowers have 4 tepals, 1 mm, ovate; stamens 4. Female flowers have 4 tepals, 1 mm, ovate; ovary 0.6 mm, stigma rounded. Berry is green, pea-sized, obovoid to spherical. Oriental Mistletoe is found in Indo-Malesia and Australia. Drupes subglobose, 06 mm long, glabrous;, seeds 1, yellowish-red when ripe.

Flowering Time : Aug. – Feb.
Fruiting Time: Aug. – Feb.

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Medicinal uses: Warning: Unverified information Oriental Mistletoe is used as a substitute for nux-vomica. Poultice of leaves is used for neuralgia; ashes of the plant for the treatment of skin diseases.

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Resources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscum
https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Oriental%20Mistletoe.html

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