Wildlife & Flora
Antifertile Dichroa
Antifertile Dichroa (Dichroa febrifuga) is a wildlife & flora sighting recorded around Landruk.
- Scientific name
- Dichroa febrifuga
- Local name
- Aseru, Bhaasak
- Category
- Wildlife & Flora
A very common evergreen shrub that grows upto 3m tall with terminally branched clusters of pale blue or violet flowers. Fruits are dark blue coloured berries. The important parts are however the roots and leaves. The roots and leaves are known febrifuge (medicine used to reduce fever). So if a notorious fever is troubling you this is the plant to get for Ayurvedic solutions. Juice from the plant is also used by villagers for repelling insect from buffalo's wounds.
