Cassia occidentalis (Senna), Mogdad-coffee
Cassia occidentalis or Senna occidentalis is an annual to perennial plant with ayurvedic facilities. It is indigenous to Brazil, today also found in
Cassia occidentalis (Senna), Mogdad-coffee
Cassia occidentalis or Senna occidentalis is an annual to perennial plant with ayurvedic facilities. It is indigenous to Brazil, today also found in warmer areas of South, North and Middle America. Common names are Mogdad coffee or Fedegoso. Because of its strong smell it is also called stinking weed or rubbish cassia belonging to the family of Leguminosae and genus Cassia.
It is a small tree with five to eight meters in size and leathery compounded leaves. The seed pods have a smooth green color and grow slightly curved upward on the tree. Seeds are olive-brown. The stem of this tree is ribbed and has a conspicuous green color and a most unpleasant smell. The leaves are compound pinnate with three to six pairs of leaflets. Yellow flowers grow in