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Simple flower with good benefits

What is Catharanthus Roseus?

At first i thought it was just a ordinary flower because it grows everywhere. We even used it to play culinary games when we were kids. But the fact is it has many good benifits. Catharanthus Roseus ***Catharanthus roseus***, commonly known as **bright eyes**, **Cape periwinkle**, **graveyard plant**, **Madagascar periwinkle**, **old maid**, **pink periwinkle**, **rose periwinkle**,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae. It is native and endemic to Madagascar, but grown elsewhere as an ornamental and medicinal plant. It is a source of the drugs vincristine and vinblastine, used to treat cancer.[3] It was formerly included in the genus *Vinca* as *Vinca rosea*. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharanthus_roseus#cite_note-grin-2 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowering_plant https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocynaceae https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endemism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicinal_plant https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drugs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincristine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinblastine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharanthus_roseus#cite_note-3 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinca

Scientific classifications Kingdom: Plantae Clade: Tracheophytes clade: Angiosperms Clade: Eudicots Clade: Asterids Order: Gentianales Family: apocynaceae Genus: Catharanthus Species: C. Roseus Binomial name: **Catharanthus Roseus**

Pollen grain of Catharanthus Roseus How many color does it have? This flower have 8 colors .

Despite its beauty it is also an herbal plant. want to know what is the uses of this flower ? **Uses** In traditional medicine, the periwinkle has been used for relieving muscle pain, depression of the central nervous system, also used for applying to wasp stings and to heal wounds. Its application ranges widely from the prevention of diabetes to treatment of stomach ache (Gajalakshmi et al., 2013). The plant is exploited and studied as a medicinal plant as it was found to produce more than 100 monoterpenoid indole alkaloids that contain the two major vital cytotoxic dimeric alkaloids that are used for cancer chemotherapy treatment, also many alkaloids have a medicinal role. The compounds include the anti cancer compounds: Vinblastine and Vincristine (Magnotta, 2006).  The alkaloid vincristine has a role for treating leukemia in children. http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-an-alkaloid.htm http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-vincristine.htm http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-leukemia.htm This plant also can be use as  ornamental plant in garden and homes across warmer places, or can be grow in glasshouse throughout cold season.

I also gather some USEFUL LINKS for further information. http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/07/31/rosy-periwinkle-life-saving-plant/ http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/2011/schneide_rebe/classification.htm http://www.kew.org/plants-fungi/Catharanthus-roseus.htm http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=a569 I dare you to plant this to your yard it looks beautiful ♥️

Well Im only up to here. I hope this article helped you. Thank You for reading 🙏🏻