Laminated Specimen - Leaf

  --  1 piece lot

Real Asiatic Pennywort - Hydrocotyle sibthorpiodes leaf specimen laminated in square plastic sheet. The specimen is clear, transparent and indestructible. Safe, authentic and completely unbreakable product put the leaf right at your fingertips!

Anyone can safely explore the leaf from both sides.

Length of the leaf is 3.3 cm (1.3 inch).

Size of the lamination sheet is 7.5x7.5 cm (3x3 inch).

This is a handmade real specimen craft. Each one will be a bit different (specimen size, color and posture) even in the same production batch.

The pictures in the listing are just for reference as we are selling multiple pieces with same pictures.

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Asiatic Pennywort - Hydrocotyle sibthorpiodes

Common name : Asiatic Pennywort

Scientific name : Hydrocotyle sibthorpiodes

Family : Carrot or Hemlock Family (Umbelliferae)

Description : This creeping plant is smaller than the Indian Pennywort.
Leaves are kidney-shaped or round, and have lobed margins.
Flowers are small and are packed in little heads (much modified umbels). An umbel has all its flowers which have stalks, emerging from a single point. Petals are absent. Sepals are white or yellow.
Fruits are small and flattened.

Habitat : This creeper is common in damp places.

Pennywort leaves has the tendency to improve memory power. Since the leave resembles the right and left hemisphere of the brains, it is regarded as god creation and gift to human kind.

This is a small, annual, slender, creeping herb. It has long-stalked, green reniform leaves with rounded apices that have smooth texture with palmately netted veins. The stems are creeping in nature, green to reddish green in colour, interconnecting one plant to another. The flowers are pinkish to red in colour, born in small, rounded bunches near the surface of the soil. Each flower is partly enclosed in 2 green bracts. The hermaphrodite flowers are minute in size (less than 3 mm), with 5-6 corolla lobes per flower. Each flower bears 5 stamens and 2 styles. Pennywort's rootstock consists of rhizomes, growing vertically down. They are creamish in colour and covered with root hairs. Fruits are small and flattened.
Medicinal Uses : It has been used for wound healing, better circulation, memory enhancement, cancer, vitality, general tonic, respiratory ailments, detoxifying the body, treatment of skin disorders (such as psoriasis and eczema), revitalizing connective tissue, burns and scars treatment, clearing up skin infections, slimming and edema, arthritis, rheumatism, treatment of liver and kidneys, periodontal disease, strengthening of veins (varicose veins), blood purifier, high blood pressure, sedative, anti-stress, anti-anxiety, an aphrodisiac, immune booster, anabolic and adaptogen etc.