Description
Color your hands and hair naturally by growing an excellent Mehndi plant.
Mehndi is a perennial shrub in Lythraceae family.It is glabrous and multi branched, with spine tipped branchlets. The leaves grow opposite each other on the stem. Leaves are glabrous, elliptical and lanceolate.
Mehndi flowers have four sepals and petals are ovate, with white or red stamens found in pairs on the rim of the calyx tube.Plant Specifications
| Plant Height | 14 inch (36 cm) |
| Plant Spread | 4 inch (10 cm) |
*above specification are indicative only. actual dimensions may vary by +-10%
| Common Name | Mehndi, Mehandi, Myrtus communis, heena |
| Maximum Reachable Height | 4.00 to 6.00 feet |
| Flower Colour | White with yellow-tipped stamens |
| Bloom Time | May to July |
| Difficulty Level | easy to grow |
Planting and care
Mehndi care
| Sunlight | |
| Watering | |
| Soil | |
| Temperature | 12-15F |
| Fertilizer |
Mehndi special feature
It is best natural coloring agent.
Mehndi uses
Ornamental Use:
- The plant is used for ornamental purpose mainly as fence or hedge plant
Medicinal Use:
- Mehndi bark and root are used for the treatment of liver enlargement and jaundice
- Mehndi leaves are soaked in water and drunken to cure cracking of nails and adds nutrition to the body
- It used for the treatment of some fungal infection, i
- , athlete, s foot
- It used as a useful agent for leucodermia
- Note- Please consults your health advisor before application or consuming of plants or plant parts