Catharanthus Roseus is an evergreen herbaceous plant. Commonly known as Cape Periwinkle, they are a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae. The flowers are dark pink with a darker red centre, with a basal tube and a corolla with five petal-like lobes.
It is grown here as an ornamental. However, they are also medicinal plant and grown elsewhere as such.
Apparently, they are a source of the drugs vincristine and vinblastine used to treat cancer.
In Ayurveda (Indian traditional medicine), an in traditional Chinese medicine, the extracts of its roots and shoots, have been used against numerous diseases including diabetes, malaria, and Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
They are hardy plants and can survive sunny, dry and nutritionally deficient conditions. They bloom throughout the year. They look lovely, like little umbrellas. And that’s what I called them – umbrella flowers, before I found out that they were called Catharanthus Roseus.
There are also white flowers, but they are not as common as the pink flowers.
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