Echinops echinatus

• Botanical Name : Echinops echinatus Roxb.
• Common Name : Utkant, Shudiyo, Indian Globe Thistle
• Plant Family : Asteraceae (Compositae)
• Plant Form : Herb
• Occurrence (Special Areas) : Indroda Park

About Echinops echinatus Plant :

• Habit : A much branched, rigid, spiny, herb with spreading branches full of white cottony hairs.
• Leaves : Sessile, oblong, deeply pinnatifid, lobes triangular, with big spines about an inch long, lower surface with white cottony wool.
• Flowers :
  • Flowers in big white balls, spiny, solitary, flowers bisexual, all fertile.
  • Involucres surrounded by strong white bristles or sharp spines.
  • Corolla regular, tubular, 5-fid, anther with tails.
• Fruit : Cypselas with short, yellow, brush-like pappus over it.
• Flowering and Fruiting Time : November - January
• Significance :
  • The plant is bitter, stomachic, stimulate the liver, tonic.
  • The root is aphrodisiac.