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Moullava spicata

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Dalzell) Nicolson

Cultivated

C, hedge, fruit, seeds

Common Names

• Candy Corn Plant
• Flaming Spike Climber
• False Thorn
• Rat Bean
• {Wagati
• Wakeri
• Wakeri Che Bhaat (Marathi)}
• { Okkadikkodi
• Pulinakkagondai (Tamil)}
• Gajjigaballi (Kannada)

Geographical Habitats

• Goa
• Gujarat
• Karnataka
• Kerala
• Madhya Pradesh
• Maharashtra
• Rajasthan - India
• Mauritius
• Myanmar
• Tanzania

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

• Jan-Feb (India)

Fruiting Times

Robust woody liana or prickly scandent shrub armed with recurved prickles, flowers in dense spikes, panicles or racemes up to 600mm long, scarlet & yellow, orange flowers with scarlet calyx about 10mm long, fruit a pod to 70mm long, leaves bipinnate

Used as hedge, fruits for tanning & dying, seeds rich in oil or starch, fodder, medicinal- febrifuge & narcotic

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Huxley 1992
• Llamas 2003
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• J.S. Gamble
• BF
• Sahyadri
• USNH