Solanaceae Week: Hyoscyamus niger from Kashmir

[Gurcharan Singh]

Hyoscyamus niger L.,  Sp. pl. 1:179. 1753

Bad smelling herbaceous plant with lacerate leaves and yellow flowers with purple veins, capsule enclosed in enlarged calyx, the fruit opens by horizontal split which removes a lid at top (circumscissile).  Dried leaves and flowring tops constitute the important drug Henbane.

Common name: black henbane, henbane, hog's-bean, stinking-nightshade

Sans: Dipya, parasikaya

Hindi: Khurasaniajvayan

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[tanay bose]

The photos are awesome Sir Ji

Tanay

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[rajank]

very nice photo of Hyocyamus niger.

thanks sharing details ab. plant

rajank

On Apr 6, 7:37 pm, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote:
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