Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Bhadraksha


Sanskrit name:Bhadraksha
Botanical name:Scavala Taccada
English:Beach Naupaka
A soft wooded shrub with white flowers used in Ayurvedic medicines.

3 comments:

chitra said...

Nice information. Good photo too.

Ummer R V said...

Is it a weed? Dont think I seen this before, so the information/photo was quite interesting. Thank you for sharing.

AswathiBabu said...

@chitra:thanking you once more
@ummer:Its a shrub like plant, we can see this in temples. In Kerala most people plant this instead of Rudaraksha. I don't know whether it has any connection with the rudraksha plant.

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