Gymnema lactiferum

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iCeylon cow-tree
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Genus: Gymnema
Species: G. lactiferum
Binomial name
Gymnema lactiferum

The Ceylon cow-tree, Gymnema lactiferum, is a species of tree. In Sanskrit it is called ksirakakoli. James Emerson Tennent described the use of the plant in his account of Ceylon (Sri Lanka)[1], and wrote it was "evidently a form of the G. sylvestre".