| PlantID | 0128 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Botanical Name | Tithonia tagetiflora | ||||||||||||||||||
| Common Name | Mexican Sunflower | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Part used | Leaves | ||||||||||||||||||
| Medicinal Properties | Antileukemic | ||||||||||||||||||
| Medicinal Use | Useful in skin diseases. Leaves: juice is used for pain in eyes. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Chemistry | Beta-sitosterol and its glucosides, various germacranolides. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cultivation | NA | ||||||||||||||||||
| Regional Habitat | Cultivated in gardens, sometimes as an escape. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Description | Annual herb with parennial base. Stem: usually erect. Leaves: alternate, petiolate, entire above, 3-lobed below, having the smell of camphor. Roots: usually taproots, sometimes fibrous. Flowers: capitula large, on long thickened stalk, heterogamous radiate; ray-florets pistillate, pappus of 2 aristate, with numerous intervening persistent scales, corolla yellow, ligulate; disc-florets hermaphrodite, tubular, slightly contracted above the base, anthers with entire base, styles-branches ending in linear-lanceolate, puberulous appendages. Fruits: cypsels oblong. Flowers and fruits appears during October-March. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Tithonia tagetiflora