India Pennywort -Centella asiatica

Hydrocotyle Asiatica-Indian Pennywort-Water Plant

        This plant  also known as Centella asiatica. The plant is a small trailing herb and it is the only species of Centella found in India. Leaves are fleshy, orbicular to reniform and dentate.Flowers are pink and white in fascicled umbels.Stem is glabrous, pink striated and rooting at nodes.The fruits are oblong, dull brown, laterally compressed, pericarp hard, thickened and woody white. The plants grow well under shade and can tolerate heavy shade. One-node stem cuttings can be planted. The root develops from the nodes.