gandhaprasarini :

Merremia tridentata

Introduced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture before 1897

as a potential fiber plant; by 1916 already “a troublesome weed” around the Brooksville

Field Station (Morton 1976). Noted as escaping to thickets and fence rows in peninsular

Florida by Small (1933). Considered an economically important weed by 1977 (Reed

1977). Occurs most often in tree gaps and other disturbed areas in its native range (Puff

1991). In Florida, invades various native plant communities, including sandhill, floodplain, and upland mixed forest.

Kotakkal Ayurveda - Mother land of modern ayurveda

gandhaprasarini - Paederia foetida Linn. - Rubiaceae