• Dhayti / धयती / Fire Flame Bush / Woodfordia fruticosa (L.)
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Dhayti / धयती / Fire Flame Bush / Woodfordia fruticosa (L.)

Local Name: Dhayti / धयती

Common Name: Fire Flame Bush

Botanical Name: Woodfordia fruticosa (L.)

Dhayti / धयती / Fire Flame Bush / Woodfordia fruticosa (L.)

Status & Habitat

  • Habitat: Shrub

  • Occurrence: Open, sunny places, often on disturbed soils and on old agricultural land. Open waste land and degraded places

  • Season of Availability: January-April

  • Geography: Africa, South and Southeast Asia

  • Method of Propagation: Seed propagation or stem cutting

  • Part used for Propagation: Seeds or stem

Edible Parts

  • Edible Parts: Flowers

  • Can be Eaten Raw: No

Method of Consumption

  • Raw: No

  • Ripe: No

  • Both Raw & Ripe: No

  • Dangerous Form to Consume: Raw plant

  • As Food: Flowers and/or leaves used as a food and prepared as a cooling drink.

  • As Medicine: Flowers used to treat dysentary; flowers used as an astringent.

  • Cooking Method: Flowers are mostly used medicinally.

  • Preservation / Curing Technique: N/A

  • Does Require Another Plants to be cooked together: No

  • Souring Agents Required: N/A


Nutritional & Medicinal Benefits

  • Nutritional Benefit: Anti-bacterial and anti-diarrheal properties

  • Medicinal Benefit: Helps treat dysentary; used as an astringent.

Tribal Wisdom

  • Tribal Wisdom: Flowers used to treat dysentary; flowers used as an astringent.

Recipes

  • Tribal Recipe: Crush flowers to make a juice.