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Food- A purple juice is extracted from the flowers. It is used as a colouring in a Thai sticky rice flour dessert known as 'kanom dok din'. The whole plant is cooked to eat. Medicine- The plant is antiscorbutic. The roots and flowers are used medicinally for clearing away heat and toxic materials
Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal
Wet tropical biome.
Perennial herb 15- 25 cm tall.
Fleshy, unbranched stem, reddish color.
Lacks leaves
Reddish-purple, tubular, and solitary.
Capsule like, sperical and contain numerous tiny seeds.
Flowering: Rainy season