Botanical name: Heracleum grande    Family: Apiaceae (Carrot family)
Synonyms: Peucedanum grande, Tetrataenium grande

Hill Carrot is a perennial, erect herb 3-4 ft tall, with yellow flowers arranged in a compound umbel. Rays are 20, 5-7 cm, stout; flowers are 10-16, on 1.2-1.6 cm long stalks. Bracts are oblong or obovate, blunt; bracteols oblong, blunt. Leaves are double-compound, leaflets 2.5-7.5 cm, with 3 large rounded lobes. Fruit is 8 mm, obovate blunt, narrowed to the base, dorsal and intermediate ridges triangular, small, blunt, lateral narrowly winged. The fruit is used in curries as a flavouring agent. It flowers during the later half of the monsoons. Hill Carrot is found in the Western Ghats.
Medicinal uses: In folk medicine, seed powder and root decoction is used to cure stomach pain. Decoction of leaves used for stomach-ache.

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