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Catharanthus roseus

29 February 2008, Flower

You know this flower as Madagascar periwinkle or rose periwinkle. Catharanthus roseus is the botanical name for this flower. Here, in Indonesia, we call this flower as tapak dara.
Wikipedia wrote that the extract have been used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat numerous diseases like diabetes, malaria and Hodgkin’s disease.
This plant is easy to grow [...]