Calotropis is a perennial small shrub of about 4 m that produces milky
sap when cut or pealed.
The leaves of this tree are opposite, green-grey, large upto 15cm long
and 10cm wide with blunt tipped two rounded basal lobes with no leaf
stalk.
The flowers are waxy white consist of 5 petals with purple tipped inside
and a central purplish crown carried in stalked clusters at the end of the
branches.
Calotropis bears a big fruit that is green-grey coloured and 8 to 10 cm
long which contains number of seeds with tufts of long silky hairs at one
end.
