Indian pennywort
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Scientific name
Bacopa monnieri
English Name
Indian pennywort,Brahmi
Malayalam name
ബ്രഹ്മി
Common name
Water hyssop
Description
- Habit : Aquatic herb
- Habitat : grows wild on damp places and marshy lands
- Leaves : Simple and oblong
- Flowers : pale blue or whitish,axillary,arranged on long slender pedicels
- Fruit : ovoid, acute
How to use
- Vegetable : Leaves and tender shoots are eaten cooked as vegetable
- Memory booster : It is considered as tonic for brain, believed to increase memory power if taken with milk
Parts used
Leaves
Uses
Anti-oxidant,Boots immunity,Memory booster.
Propagation & Cultivation
The plant is propagated by soft herbaceous cuttings. For mass propagation, whole plant is cut into small divisions and planted directly in the sunken beds. About 62,500 nos. of cuttings required for planting one hectare area. The cuttings of about 5-6 m long, each with a few leaves and nodes are ideal and establish easily. The cuttings are transplanted in wet soil at spacing of 10 x 10cm to get maximum herbage yield. Flood irrigation is provided quickly just after planting. The cuttings should be transplanted in the month of July-August to get maximum herbage yield
