MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC CROPS (2+1)

Description of the plant

• It is an erect evergreen, perennial under-shrub, and 75 cm to 1 m in height.
  


• Its leaves are simple, elliptical, bright green and pointed.
  


• The inflorescence is many flowered corymbs with white or pink flowers.
  


• The fruit is a drupe.
  


• Root is prominent, tuberous, usually branched; 0.5 to 2.5 cm in diameter grows up to 40 to 60 cm deep into soil.
  


• The root bark constitutes 40-60% of the whole root, is rich in alkaloid.