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I did not touch it with my fingers naturally, but I managed to loop a piece of twine around the stem, and by that means I gingerly removed the flowers and carried them to an orchid-hunter of my acquaintance who chanced to be visiting Manipur. "Grahame that was my orchid man's name pronounced the specimen to be an unclassified species of jatropha; belonging to the Curcas family.
The fruit is picked before it is ripe, and is eaten as it becomes mellow. Also found in a wild state. The fruit is used as a purgative. The Jathropha curcas L. is also used. The fruit is eaten without cooking. Jackfruit. This so-called "Chinese cotton" is a small tree with few, but perfectly straight, branches, which radiate from the trunk in horizontal lines.
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