Capparis spinosa

English Name:  The Caper Bush
Sanskrit Name: Himsra      
Family: Capparidaceae   
Plant Part Used: Root            
Description of Capparis spinosa:It grows in Afghanistan, West Asia, Europe, North Africa and Australia. In India it grows from Punjab and Rajasthan to the Deccan Peninsula.
A prostrate, glabroscent, polymorph shrub or climber armed with divaricate light yellow thorns, occurring in dry rocky and stony soils. Branches terete and glabrous or pubescent. Leaves are variable in texture, orbicular to elliptic, base rounded and apex mucronate. Flowers are white, solitary, axillary. Sepals are sub equal, petals are white, and its anther filaments are purple and are longer than the petals. The berry is ellipsoid, ovoid or obovoid and pericarp thin. The seeds are 3-4 mm in diam., globose, smooth and brown.