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==Uses==
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==Parts Used==
{{Parts Used|Flowers}}, {{Parts Used|stem}}, {{Parts Used|leaves}}, {{Parts Used|RootLeaves}}.
==Chemical Composition==
Primary constituents have chlorophyll, proteins sugar and amino acids. Secondary constituents contain terpenoids and alkaloids. Medicinal plants have antifungal, antibacterial and anti-inflammation activities. The present study involves medicinal plant Meconopsis aculeta which is locally available in Kashmir Himalaya.
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==Common names==
{{Common names|sa=|en=|gu=|hi=|kn=|ksml=|mlsa=|mrta=|pate=|tahi=Kanta कान्ता, Vanita वनीता. Ladak|teen=Blue poppy,Himalayan blue poppy. Hin. Vanita, Kaliharu,. Bhotia-sarchhing, Kanta}}
==Properties==
Reference: Dravya - Substance, Rasa - Taste, Guna - Qualities, Veerya - Potency, Vipaka - Post-digesion effect, Karma - Pharmacological activity, Prabhava - Therepeutics.
===Dravya===
===Rasa===
===Guna===
==Habit==
{{Habit|Herb}}
==Identification==
===Leaf===
{{Leaf|Simple|Alternate|The leaves are light green and feathery.}}<ref name="Leaf"/>
===Flower===
{{Flower|Bisexual||White|3-4|Flowers Season is June - August}}
===Other features===
==List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used==
* [[Vishatinduka Taila]] as ''root juice extract''
==Where to get the saplings==
==Mode of Propagation==
{{Propagation|seeds}}.
==How to plant/cultivate==
Monocarpic erect, prickly herbs, with yellow fluid, about 40-60 cm tall. Stem simple or branched at the base, leafy throughout, covered with yellow or golden yellow color bristles, about 2-7 mm long. Tap roots narrow elongated or fusiform, about 10-14 cm long. Basal cauline leaves, variable, irregularly 1-2 pinnatipartite rarely bipinnatipartite, about 5-25 x 2-5 cm across, margin ciliate, apex obtuse, broadly incised on the lower basal segments, bristle hairs on both sides, above and beneath, petiole widened at the base, bristly, about 4-12 cm long, upper cauline leaves smaller, segments oblong, obovate to triangular, margin ciliate, apex obtuse, petiole sessile. Inflorescence raceme with about 10-20 flowers, bracteate. Flowers bisexual, axillary or terminal, about 6-8 cm across, pale blue to purple, red, pink, actinomorphic, showing bilateral symmetry, pedicels slender, spiny, about 1-15 cm long, Sepals 2, ovate-orbicular, spiny, about 1-2 cm long, caducous, petals 4, rarely 6, obovate, apex rounded or obtuse, blue, purple, red, margin entire, about 3-4 x 3-4 c-m across. Stamens numerous, filaments filiform, linear, with showy colors as petals, about 0.5-1 cm long, anthers golden yellow, basifixed, about 1-1.5 mm long. Ovary obovoid-ellipsoid or subglobose, unilocular, densely spiny, style slender, distinct or conspicuous, stigmas capitates, free or confluent on decurrent lobes, swollen at the base, about 4-10 mm long. Fruits capsules, ellipsoid-obovoid, about 10-15 mm long, dehiscing by 4-6 interplacental valves in upper apex part, rarely at the base. Seeds many, subreniform, oblong-ellipsoid, usually papillose, about 1 mm long.<ref name="How to plant/cultivate"/>
==Commonly seen growing in areas==
{{Commonly seen|Tall grasslands}}, {{Commonly seen|Meadows}}, {{Commonly seen|}}, {{Commonly seen|}}, {{Commonly seen|Borders of forests and fields}}.
==Photo Gallery==
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File:Meconopsis aculeata - Blue Poppy on way from Gangria to Valley of Flowers National Park - during LGFC - VOF 2019 (5).jpg
File:MeconopsisAculeataRoyle.jpg
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==References==
<references>
<ref name="chemical composition">[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287279893_Growth_parameters_yield_and_chemical_composition_of_Matthiola_incana_plants_as_influenced_by_foliar_spray_with_stigmasterol_and_diphenylurea Chemical constituents]</ref>
<ref name="chemical compositionLeaf">["Chemistry"https://www.herbal-supplement-resource.com/german-chamomile.html Plant description]</ref>
<ref name="LeafHow to plant/cultivate">["Morphologyhttps://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/230350 Cultivation"]</ref></references>
==External Links==
* [ http://www.meconopsis.org/ Meconopsis aculeata]* [ ]* [ ]
[[Category:Herbs]]
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