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Kala Dana Chota is the ivy-leaved morning glory, is a flowering plant in the bindweed family. Like most members of the family, it is a climbing vine with alternate leaves on twining stems. The Black Seed Small flowers are blue to rose-purple with a white inner throat and emerge in summer and continue until late fall.

A twining plant indigenous to India. The seeds are about 5 millimeters in length; and are nearly black in color, except at the micropyle, where they are brown. In shape they resemble the quarter of an orange, and usually bear a shallow groove on the dorsal surface. Kala Dana Chota is a purgative.

It is an annual with a tap root. The stems are up to 8 feet in length and climb by twining or trail over the ground. The stems are green or purple in color, and pubescent with long reflexed white hairs. The leaves are alternate, petiolate, cordate or 3-lobed in outline, and pubescent. The petiole is pubescent with long white hairs. Flowers are produced solitary or in 2-3 flowered cymes from the leaf axils. The peduncle is shorter than the petiole of the subtending leaf and is pubescent with reflexed hairs. Kala Dana Chota

The calyx has 5 linear-lanceolate lobes that are longer than the tube and curl outwards at their tips. The calyx tube is densely pubescent with long white hairs. The corolla is campanulate, sky blue in color with a white throat. The flowers open at night and close in the morning. The fruit is a capsule with 3-5 black, wedge shaped seed. Ivy Leaf Morning Glory is sometimes cultivated. Kala Dana Chota can be easily grown from seed. Kala Dana Chota

The flowers are blue to rose-purple with a white inner throat and emerge in summer and continue until late fall. The Kala Dana Chota leaves are typically three-lobed, but sometimes may be five-lobed or entire. Flowers occur in clusters of one to three and are 2.5-4.5 cm long and wide. The sepals taper to long, recurved tips and measure 12–24 mm long.

Kala Dana Chota Benefits:

This species is cited as being used as an abortifacient, anthelminthic, cathartic, deobstruent, diuretic, purgative, vermifuge, and vision medication and in many other illness.