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Platostoma menthoides
South Indian Jellywort is a small annual mint-family herb native to central and southern India and Sri Lanka, traditionally used in folk medicine for colds. It is rarely grown in gardens, so care advice is general and based on its seasonally dry tropical habitat.
Platostoma menthoides is a species of plant belonging to the mint family Lamiaceae and is found widely in Tamil Nadu, India. Traditionally this plant used in common cold and febrifuge.
In Acute Oral Toxicity Study, no mortality was found at the end of study and sign of toxicity like change in skin and fur, eyes and mucous membrane, and also respiratory, circulatory, autonomic, and central nervous system and somatomotor activity, behavior pattern, sign of tremors, convulsions, salvation, lethargy, sleep, coma were also not found.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Platostoma menthoides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
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.
