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===Food===
Kolakanda can be used in Food. Tubers are eaten raw or cooked as vegetable. Tender leaves are cooked as vegetable<ref name="Forest foods of Western Ghat"/>.
==Parts Used==
===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="Nutritional componentsForest foods of Western Ghat"/>.
==Habit==
==Cultivation Details==
Drimia indica is available through February-May<ref name="Forest foods of Western Ghat"/>.
===Season to grow===
<ref name="Leaf">[http://keralaplants.in/ BOTANIC DESCRIPTION]</ref>
<ref name="Common names">[https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/via-species/d/drimia-indica Vernacular names]</ref>
<ref name="Nutritional componentsForest foods of Western Ghat">"Forest food for Northern region of western ghat pdf 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>
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