ETHNO BOTANICAL STUDY OF STROBILANTHES CALLOSA NEES.? by M. B. BARAIYA1 AND N. K. PATEL2?
Keywords:
Karvi, Wall, Employment, Medicinal useAbstract
Many kinds of plants grow in the forest and completed their life cycle. Most of these plants are used by people in some way or another. For example, human lifespan have been use plants since that time immemorial as a medicine, to make medicine, as food, in industrial units, for animals as animal fodder, as fuel, as a commodity, etc.
One such plant, known as Karvi (Strobilanthes callosa Nees) is found growing in the forests of Passim Ghat and South Gujarat. Which is included in the secondary forest products under the forest products Act. The local’s people use this plant for their habitat, building a wall to make cattle pens, mangers, roofs etc. and use its roots as medicine.
These plants play an imported role in the environment, and provide habitat for many birds, insects, and bees. Gradually this karava / Karvi are declining in the forest, which needs special protection.
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