Calotropis gigantea Family: Asclepiadaceae Fruit is a follicle and when dry, seed dispersal is by wind. The seeds with a parachute of hairs.

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Ruiti flower, Calotropis gigantea, kind of cotton, each of the filaments of which is termed Mhatari or old lady in Marathi

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