Describe a plant grown in your country.
You should say:
- what the plant is
- where it is grown
- why you like or dislike it
and explain why this is an important plant.
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My country has rather a fertile land, so, naturally different kinds of plants are easily grown on its soil. Needless to say, some of these plants are rather useful, and among them, I would like to talk about one plant, which is not only popular and useful in my country, but also in many other parts of the world, especially the Asia and the African continent.
The name of this plant is more popularly known as “Mehndi” (or “Heena” tree in plain English) in my part of the world. Originally coming from the Egypt, Lawsonia inermis (the scientific name of Heena) is a flowering plant that can grow about 12 to 15 feet high. The plant grows best in heat up to 120-degree Fahrenheit temperature. In fact, this is the perfect temperature at which the plant can contain more dye. However, it may wilt in temperatures below 50-degree Fahrenheit. Further, it also grows better in dry soil than damp soil. As far as the leaves of this plant are concerned, they are in opposite decussate pairs and vary in sizes from approximately 2 to 4 cm. long.
Its flowers are fragrant, produced in conical panicles that are 1040 cm long, 5 millimeter in diameter, and have four white petals each. The fruit is a dry capsule 68 mm diameter, containing numerous 12.5 mm seeds. By the way, this plant is grown, literally anywhere from a backyard and empty field to roof top. Anyway, I like this plant because it has lots of usages but it doesn’t exactly much effort or time to grow. Besides, it doesn’t really take much space to grow.
Anyway, this is an important plant, mainly because its paste is used to paint different body parts of women on occasions like wedding ceremony, music and dance party, during important rites of passage, and in other times of joyous celebrations. Besides, this plant can also be used for medicinal purposes to treat ailments like headaches, stomach pains, burns, open wounds, fever, and even the prevention of hair loss! Indeed, it is an important plant to grow.
