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Propagation Protocol <strong>of</strong> Asparagus racemosus<br />
1. Introduction<br />
Current Name : Rauvolfia serpentina Benth.<br />
Family: Liliaceae<br />
Synonyms: Asparagus racemosus, Asparagus sarmentosus,<br />
Asparagus gonoclados, Asparagus adscendens<br />
Common names: Asparagus, Shatawari,<br />
Vernacular names:<br />
Hindi: Shatawar<br />
Satamati:Sanskrit,<br />
Tamil: Shimaishadavare,<br />
Kannada: Majigegadde<br />
Marathi: Satawarmul<br />
2. Botanic description<br />
A much-branched, tall climbing, spinous under-shrub with annual woody<br />
terrate stems, and tuberous, short rootstock bearing numerous fusiform,<br />
succulent, tuberous roots, Branchlets triquetrous, spines 5-13 mm long<br />
recurved or rarely straight, cladoded 1.3-2.5 cm long, in tufts <strong>of</strong> 2-6 curved.<br />
The flowers are white, fragment, solitary <strong>of</strong> fascicited, simple <strong>of</strong> branched<br />
racemes 2.5-5 cm long, Peicles 5mm long joined in <strong>the</strong> middle. Perianth<br />
about 3 mm long, stamens as long as <strong>the</strong> perianth. Berry 5 to 6 mm in<br />
diameter red, globose or more <strong>of</strong>ten obscurely 3 lobed; usually one seed in a<br />
berry. White tubers <strong>of</strong> this plant are available in <strong>the</strong> market as <strong>the</strong> market as<br />
shatavar.<br />
3. Ecology and distribution<br />
Slinder, straggling under shrubs with wiry, yellowish stem and falcate,<br />
green, leaf-like cladodes; common along hedges, in scrub jungles and waste<br />
places, as undergrowth in plantation, etc. in <strong>the</strong> moist and dry deciduous<br />
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