Niyangala
Niyangala Scientific name: Gloriosa superba Family name: COLCHICACEAE English name: Glory lily Local name: Niyangala (නියඟලා) Sanskrit name: Langalii Conservation status: Least concerned (NCS 2012) Description: Semi-woody, herbaceous, perennial, branching climber, reaching up to about 5 m height; 1-4 stems arise from a single V-shaped fleshy cylindrical tuber. Leaves sessile, 5-15 cm long, 4-5 cm […]
Nagabala
Nagabala Scientific name: Sida spinosa Family name: MALVACEAE Local name: Nagabala Description: Annual or perennial undershrub, erect to c. 0.5 m tall. leaves; lamina 1 – 4 X 0.3 – 2.2 cm, ovate to oblong, or lanceolte to linear, obtuse t apex, base subtruncate to rounded, rarely orbicular, coarsely crenate-serrate, minutely stellate on both surfaces, […]
Mayurapada
Mayurapada Scientific name: Jatropha multifida Family name: EUPHORBIACEAE English name: Coral bush Local name: Mayurapada erandu Description: shrub or small tree with a single trunk, a loose, spreading crown and a typical height in cultivation of 6-10 ft (1.8-3.1 m), although it can grow up to 20 ft (6.1 m) tall. The very distinctive leaves […]
Madara
Madara Scientific name: Cleistanthus collinus Previous name used in the website: Family name: EUPHORBIACEAE English name: Garari Local name: Madara (මදාරා) Description: Small deciduous tree. Leaves are alternate, quite entire, leathery, circular, broadly-obovate or elliptic, 1.5-3 inches long. Leaf stalk is 6 mm long. Flowers are yellowish-green, in small silky hairy clusters in leaf axils. […]
Malitha
Malitha Scientific name: Woodfordia fruticosa Family name: LYTHRACEAE English name: Fire-flame bush Local name: Malitha Description: Shrubs, 1-5 m tall; stems and branches pendulous, long, pubescent when young, becoming glabrous. Leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 3-14 × 1-4 cm, abaxially sparsely to densely tomentose and orange to black glandular punctate, base rounded to sub cordate, apex […]
Ma-dan
Ma-dan Scientific name: Syzygium cumini Previous name used in the website: Family name: MYRTACEAE English name: Black plum Local name: Madan/Mahadan Description: Large shrub or canopy tree, -25 m tall. Twigs slender, terete, cream. Leaves pale yellowish green, 6.5-11 x 2.5-5 cm, drying pale yellow-brown. Cymes -10 cm long, terminal or axillary; flower petals about […]
Lunuwarana
Lunuwarana Scientific name: Photinia integrifolia var. sublanceolata Family name: ROSACEAE Local name:Lunuwarana Conservation status:Least Concerned (NCS) 2012 Status:Native Edible parts:None
Lothsubula
Lothsubula Scientific name: Melaleuca leucadendron Family name: MYRTACEAE English name: Cajuput tree Local name: Lothsumbulu / Weradi Lothsumbulu Description: Tree, with ascending branches; covered with a pale, thick, lamellated,soft, spongy, bark. Leaves lanceolate, ash coloured. Inflorescence a long spike. Flowers sessile, white. Status: Native Edible parts: none Ayurvedic Treatments- Wounds Fevers Endometritis Dysentery Leucorrhoea Menorrhagia […]
Kuru thana
Kuru thana Scientific name:Bambusa glaucescens Family name:POACEAE Local name:Kuru thana (කටු තණ) Status:Native Edible parts:None
Korakaha
Korakaha Scientific name: Memecylon umbellatum Family name: MELASTOMACEAE English name: Iron wood tree Local name: Korakaha Description: A large shrub or small tree, up to about 5 m tall; branches subterete. Leaves 2.5-10 x 1.5-5 cm; petiole 5 mm long, generally drying yellowish-green. Inflorescences condensed to 3-15 flowered heads, 4-15 mm diameter; peduncles 2-25 mm […]
