Gotu Kola
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The stems are slender, creeping stolons, green to reddish green in color, interconnecting one plant to another. It has long-stalked, green, reniform leaves with rounded apices which have smooth texture with palmately netted veins. The leaves are borne on pericladial petioles, around 20 cm. The rootstock consists of rhizomes, growing vertically down. They are creamish in color and covered with root hairs.
The flowers are pinkish to red in color, born in small, rounded bunches (umbels) near the surface of the soil. Each flower is partly enclosed in two green bracts. The hermaphrodite flowers are minute in size (less than 3 mm), with 5-6 corolla lobes per flower. Each flower bears five stamens and two styles. The fruit are densely reticulate, distinguishing it from species of Hydrocotyle which have smooth, ribbed or warty fruit.The crop matures in three months and the whole plant, including the roots, is harvested manually.

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Translations: Iesaldēja Kolas, Gotu Κόλα, غوتو كولا, Готу Кола, サシェ, Gotu kola, Centella asiatica, GotU קולה, Rambus Kola, Gotu 콜라, Gotu halaman ng kola, Gøtu Kola, Gotu कोला, Gotu Кольського, 积雪草, Gøtu Kola, Gotu Кольского, Срок за Кола