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Begunia

Local Name	:	Begunia
Botanical Name	:	Vitex negundo L.
Common Name	:	Begunia, Chinese chaste tree
Family	:	Lamiaceae
Distribution	:	Found widely in India including Odisha. Native to tropical Eastern and Southern Asia. It occurs in countries such as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Indonesia etc
Habit	:	Shrub
Short Description	:	It is a shrub with aromatic leaves and small purple flowers in dense spikes, that grows from 2 to 8 meters in height.

Descriptions

It is an erect shrub or small tree that grows from 2 to 8 meters in height. The leaves are digitate, and each leaf has 3-5 lanceolate leaflets. The central leaflet is the largest and possesses a stalk. Flowers are small, usually blue, or violet, subsessile to shortly pedicelled. Fruit is a drupe that is rounded to egg-shaped.

Flowering & Fruiting Period

March - July

Use(s)

Leaf decoction is used in fiver.