Jul 20, 2022 · A longtime favorite of Gulf Coast gardeners, growing candle bush (Senna alata) adds a showy, yet old-fashioned touch to the full sun landscape. Upright racemes of yellow flowers resemble a candlestick, hence the common name of candlestick plant.

Plants in the genus Senna are shrubs, sometimes small trees or perennial herbs. The leaves are arranged alternately, paripinnate with up to 25 pairs of leaflets, each leaf with a stipule at the base, but that often falls off as the leaves mature. The flowers are arranged in racemes in leaf axils with bracts at the base.

Senna occidentalis is an unarmed slender upright and short-lived (annual or biennial) shrub, 0.5-2.5 m tall, distinguished by foetid odour. Its once-compound leaves consist of 3-7 pairs of leaflets (2-10 cm long and 2-3 cm wide) that have pointed tips.

Senna alata (also known as Cassia alata) is often called the ringworm bush because of its very effective fungicidal properties, for treating ringworm and other fungal infections of the skin. The leaves are ground in a mortar to obtain a kind of "green cotton wool".

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nectaries are attractive to ants, and other insects including ladybird beetles. It’s thought that these insects protect the plant from other insects that would attack the foliage. The caterpillars of some Sulfur butterflies rely on wild senna foliage as a food source.

Dec 11, 2024 · Coffee senna has been used for its diuretic, laxative, blood purifier, antibacterial, and antifungal properties, as well as for treatment of hemorrhoids, gout, rheumatism, diabetes, whooping cough, convulsions, heart disease, snakebite, asthma, fever, and the flu.

Usually flowers and fruits as a shrub about 1 m tall. Stipules narrowly triangular, about 2-4 mm long, shed early, leaving only inconspicuous scars. Leaflet blades about 40-70 x 15-25 mm, the terminal pair the largest. About 6-12 leaflets per leaf. Leaflet margins +/- ciliate.

Senna alata, commonly called empress candle plant or candle bush, is so named because the erect flower spikes when in bud resemble yellow candles. It is also commonly called ringworm cassia because the plant leaves were once used to treat ringworm.

Wild Senna has extrafloral nectaries, a nectar source separate from the flowers. They are positioned on the leaf petioles (stems) near their attachment to the primary plant stem and adjacent to the flower buds. Extrafloral nectaries are attractive to …