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Flemingia grahamiana
Also called Stainpod Silkbush
Stainpod is a scrambling shrub or subshrub in the pea family, grown mainly for its red-orange dye pods and used in folk medicine. It suits warm, seasonally dry tropical climates and is not commonly grown as an ornamental.
Flemingia grahamiana is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. Extracts of the plant are used in the dyeing of silk and cotton in parts of India, Africa, and the Middle East.
Chalcone and flemingin A have been isolated from the leaves of the species, also isolated from the roots were isoflavones and prenylated flavanones.
Occurs in India, parts of South Asia, in particular, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam, Yemen and also occurs in East Africa southwards to South Africa. Found on hill slopes, termite mounds and in open and wooded savannah in Africa.
Flemingia grahamiana is used in various countries for ethnomedical purposes, in parts of India leaves are used as a purgative, while in parts of Malawi and Zimbabwe root extracts are used as a decoction to treat diarrhea and dysentery . Exudates from the pod is used in the dyeing of silk and sometimes cotton.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
