Opuntia dellenii (Ker Gawl.) Haw.
| Synonym : | Cactus chinensis Roxb. Cactus dillenii Ker Gawl. Cactus indicus Roxb. Opuntia melanosperma Svenson |
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| Bangla Name : | Fonimonasa,Nagkana,Nagfana,Moi bhanga(Dalu),Narpanda-siju(Garo),Philo-rot-paw(Murong),Lawa-ka-ju(Rak |
| English Name : | Prickly pear,Slipper thorn,Indian fig. |
| Family : | Cactaceae. |
| Disease : | Impotence, digestive, carminative, diuretic, purgative, leucoderma, enlarged spleen, urinary burning,vesicular calculi, ophthalmia, dandruff, inflammation, boils to hasten suppuration, whooping cough, ashma, gonorrhoea. |
| Description : | Shrubs sprawling or erect. Trunk absent or short. Larger, terminal joints green to gray-green, obovate or elliptic-obovate to suborbicular. Areoles 2-9 mm in diam. Leaves subulat, deciduous. Sepaloids greenish with yellow margin, broadly deltoid-obovate to obovate, margin entire or slightly crisped, apex mucronate. Petaloids spreading, bright yellow, obovate or cuneate-obovate,margin entire or slightly undulate, apex rounded, truncate, or emarginate. Filaments yellow, anthers yellow. Style yellow or yellowish, stigmas 5, pale green. Fruit purple, turbinate to obovoid, fleshy at maturity, umbilicus deep. Seeds light tan, irregularly orbicular. Fl. Jun-Oct(-Dec). |
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| Chemical Constituents : | Flowers contain gycoside of isorhamnetin and quercertain and glucoside narcissi. Isolation of isoquercitrin, ?-sitosterol, opintiol. Apolysaccharide contains galactose and arabinose from pods. |
| Uses : | The plant is used in Impotence, digestive, carminative, diuretic, purgative, leucoderma, enlarged spleen, urinary burning, vesicular calculi, ophthalmia, dandruff, inflammation, boils to hasten suppuration, whooping cough, ashma, gonorrhoea. |
| Habit : | Shrub |