PIONEER AGRO STRYCHNOS NUX-(VOMICA)

About Strychnos nux-vomica

Strychnos nux-vomica is a tree known for its medicinal importance and distinctive fruit and seeds. Its flowers are white or greenish-white, fragrant, and appear in many-flowered terminal cymes. The calyx is five-lobed, pubescent, and small (about 2 mm), while the corolla is salver-shaped with five lobes and a cylindrical tube that is greenish-white inside, slightly hairy near the base. The fruit is an indehiscent berry, 5–6 cm in diameter, thick-shelled, orange-red when ripe, and filled with fleshy pulp. Seeds are discoid, compressed, concave on one side, convex on the other, and covered with fine grey silky hairs.

Flowering and Fruiting

• Flowering Season: February–April
• Fruiting Season: November–March

Seed Standardization Report

• No. of Seeds per kg: 750
• Germination Capacity: 30%
• Time Taken for Initial Germination: 25 days
• Time Taken for Germination Capacity: 55 days
• Germinative Energy: 20%
• Plant Percentage: 20%
• Purity Percentage: 100%
• Moisture Percentage: 12%
• No. of Seedlings per kg: 150