Rattlebox
Pictures are from a hike in the Western Ghats (Sahyadris) around 2007.
| Botanical name | Crotalaria pallida |
| English names | salts rattlebox, smooth crotalaria, streaked rattlepod, striped crotalaria |
| Nederlandse naam | |
| Indian names | Hindi: san |
Characteristics
| Native habitat | Probably originally from tropical Africa, widely naturalised in the tropics: Indonesia, Sudan, United States (Florida, Puerto Rico), Brazil, India, and Bangladesh | |||
| Plant Type | medium shrub | |||
| Bloom time | Fall color | |||
| Fruit | In a pod like peas (legume) | |||
| Uses | Grown as a ground cover and a green manure crop, especially in the inter-rows of rubber trees and coconut palms. Flowers are eaten as a vegetable in Cambodia, where the seeds are roasted and grounded for use as a sort of coffee beverage. |
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Categories
03-Mar, 04-Apr, 05-May, bush, green, india, perennial, poisonous, south india, spring, west india, western ghats