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  Indian Heliotrope

 

Thailand

The Indian Heliotrope, a plant with the botanical name Heliotropium indicum, has a coiling inflorescence of small flower clusters, which is reminiscent of the trunk of an elephant (fig.). Hence, it is in Thai called ya nguong chang, i.e. ‘elephant-trunk weed’.

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