Botanical name: Adoxa moschatellina    Family: Viburnaceae (Viburnum family)
Synonyms: Moschatella cordi, Adoxa moschata, Moschatella adoxa

Moschatel is a highly distinctive plant, owing to its curious, cubical arrangement of flowers. Flowering stem is unbranched, 1.5-4.8 cm long, slender. Flowering heads are 5-7 mm broad, spherical, bearing a cluster of 4 lateral and 1 end flower. Flowers are pinwheel shaped, greenish, 4-5-petaled. Petals are nearly round to oblong, 2.6 mm long, nervose. Sepal-cup is ovate, about 1 mm long, half cleft; sepals 3-4 in number, blunt, less than 1 mm long. Stamens are as many as the petals and alternating with them; each filament bearing half an anther; anthers yellow, less than 1 mm long. It is a hairless herb with a well developed rhizome, creeping with fibrous roots and at tip with white, fleshy and overlapping scales. Leaves are dark green above, pale below, trifoliate or three-lobed. Leaf-stalk of lower leaves is 4.5-11.0 cm long. Stem leaves are usually solitary. Leaflets 3-segmented; segments 3-6 x 2-6.5 cm, bluntly lobed. Drupe is 5.5 mm broad, nearly spherical. Moschatel is found in the whole of Temperate Northern Hemisphere, including Western Himalaya. Flowering: April-July.

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