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[[File:Drimia indica - open flowers.jpeg|thumb|right|''Kolakanda'', ''Drimia indica'']]
'''Kolakanda''' is a bulbous perennial plant with delicate maroonish pendant flowers that bloom from leafless bulbs during the summer. The strap shaped leaves appear in the rainy season. The bulb is eaten by locals. Kolakanda is found throughout India in stony or gravelly substrate.
==Uses==
{{Uses|Skin diseases}}, {{Uses|Cold}}, {{Uses|Cough}}, {{Uses|Difficulty in micturition}}, {{Uses|Cardiac problems}}, {{Uses|Intestinal worms}} <ref name="Uses"/>
==Uses=Food==={{Uses|Skin diseases}}, {{Uses|Cold and Cough}}, {{Uses|Difficulty Kolakanda can be used in micturition}}, {{Uses|Cardiac problems}}, {{Uses|Intestinal worms}}Food. Tubers are eaten raw or cooked as vegetable. Tender leaves are cooked as vegetable<ref name="UsesForest foods of Western Ghat"/>.
==Parts Used==
{{Parts Used|rhizomeRhizome}}
==Chemical Composition==
==Common names==
{{Common names|kn=kaadu ಬಿಳಿ ಈರುಳ್ಳಿ Bili eerulli, ಕಾಡು ಬೆಳ್ಳುಳ್ಳಿ Kaadu bellulli, naayiulli, seeme nari eerulliadavi-irulli, bheemana ulli|ml=kanthangaKaattulli, kattulliKaanthenga|sa=asmantaka, kolakanda, krimighnaAsmantaka, panjalaputakanda, putalu, suputa, vana-palandamKolakanda|ta= ciruvenkayamCiruvenkayam, kaattu Kaattu vengayam, kakunarakavulli, kattuvengayam|te=adavithellagaddaAdavithellagadda, kaazagaddaKaazagadda, nakkaNakka-vulli-gadda|hi=ban Ban piaz, jangli Jangli piaz, janglikandaJanglikanda|en=Indian squill, Sea onion, White squill}}
<ref name="Common names"/>
Vata
===Prabhava===
===Nutritional components===
Cleome viscosa Contains the Following nutritional components like - Vitamin-A, B and C; Cardiac glycosides; Flavonoids- Quercetin, Kaempferol, Sinistrinn; Calcium oxalate; Glycosides - scillaren-A and scillaren-B; Calcium, Copper, Iron, Magnesium, Manganese, Potassium, Phosphorus, Sulphur, Zinc<ref name="Forest foods of Western Ghat"/>.
==Habit==
==Identification==
===Leaf===
{{Leaf|Simple|Rosette|Bulbous, scapigerous herbs; bulbs tunicated, 3.5-6 x 2.5-6.5 cm, globose-conical. Leaves radical with sheathing base, 13-25 x 0.6-2.5 cm, linear, lanceolate or lorate. }}<ref name="Leaf"/>
===Flower===
{{Flower|Bisexual|Scape|Purplish brown|6| Scapes 17-45 cm tall, erect, purpish brown, 4-15-flowered. Flowers 0.8-1.2 cm long, c. 1 cm across, reddish green or dull green, campanulate; pedicels 2-3.5 cm long, curved, drooping; bracts 1-2 mm, deltoid. Perianth 3+3, subequal, 0.8-1 x 0.3-0.4 cm, linear-oblong, subacute, reflexed, free to the base. Stamens 6; filaments c. 3 mm long, adnate to the base of the perianth segments; anthers 1.5-2 mm long, linear, yellow, base auricled. Ovary 3.5-5 x 2-3 mm, oblong or ovoid; style obconic to narrowly elongate; stigma trilobed. }}
===Fruit===
{{Fruit|A capsule|10-20 x 5-10 mm||brownish Brownish yellow|Seeds 4-10 in each cell, 4-7 x 3-4 mm, winged.}}
===Other features===
{{Propagation|Seeds}}, {{Propagation|Bulbs}}.
==How to plant/cultivateCultivation Details==Drimia indica is available through February-May<ref name="Forest foods of Western Ghat"/>.
===Season to grow===
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==References==
<references>
<ref name="Uses">[https://easyayurveda.com/2017/08/13/indian-squill-urginea-indica/ "Uses"]</ref> <ref name="Leaf">[http://FLOWERING PLANTS OF KERALA VERkeralaplants.2, N. Sasidharan "in/ BOTANIC DESCRIPTION"]</ref><ref name="Common names">[httphttps://envissites.frlhtgoogle.orgcom/site/bot_search "indiannamesofplants/via-species/d/drimia-indica Vernacular names"]</ref><ref name="Forest foods of Western Ghat">"Forest food for Northern region of Western Ghats" by Dr. Mandar N. Datar and Dr. Anuradha S. Upadhye, Page No.71, Published by Maharashtra Association for the Cultivation of Science (MACS) Agharkar Research Institute, Gopal Ganesh Agarkar Road, Pune</ref>
</references>
==External Links==
* [http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Drimia+indicaDrimia indica on theferns.info]* [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254627217300365Drimia indica on sciencedirect.com]
[[Category:Herbs]]
[[Category:HerbAsparagaceae]]
[[Category:Ayurvedic herbs that don't have flower, fruit and leaf photos]]
[[Category:Ayurvedic herbs that don't have seed photos]]
