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Native to South America, Monkey’s brush is a vine sporting vivid orange-red inflorescences at the tips of the branches. Elongated powder-puff flowers are multi-coloured: yellow, orange, and red. When in bloom, this vining shrub is all covered with them, looks like a fire. It is somewhat similar to its cousine Flame Vine, but has much more prominent blooms. Combretum rotundifolium is a shrub or climbing plant.The plant is harvested from the wild for local medicinal use. A decoction of the crushed stem is applied externally as a febrifuge The sap is rubbed on to the forehead to alleviate headache. The flowers are chewed to strengthen gums that are bleeding and weak Source: tropical.theferns.info www.flowersofindia.net This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness
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