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Plectranthus hadiensis is a perennial shrub in the mint family with woolly, semi-succulent stems and mauve to purple flowers, native to southern and eastern Africa and southern Arabia. It is grown as an ornamental because it is easy to cultivate, propagate and maintain.
Plectranthus hadiensis is a perennial herbaceous plant of the family Lamiaceae.
Plectranthus hadiensis is widely used as an ornamental plant because it is easy to cultivate, propagate and maintain. The compounds of the plant were formerly used to poison fish and more traditionally as an enema. It is used to ward off evil spirits. In Uganda it is used to heal wounds and peptic ulcers.
The species is found in Transkei, Natal, Eswatini, the Transvaal, eastern tropical Africa, Somalia and the southern Arabian Peninsula. The plant can be found on the fringes of forests, in dry forests and amongst rocks in grasslands and lowlands.
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