CENTELLA ASIATICA

Gotu Kola or Centella asiatica is a tropical medicinal plant from Apiaceae family native to Southeast Asian countries such as India, Sri Lanka, China, Indonesia, and Malaysia as well as South Africa and Madagascar.

Commonly known as “Gotu kola, Asiatic pennywort, Indian pennywort, Indian water navelwort, wild violet, and tiger herb” in English, is a tropical plant, which has been also cultivated successfully due to its medical importance in some countries including Turkey, and it has a long history of utilization in ayurvedic and Chinese traditional medicines since centuries. The leaves, which are edible, are in yellowish-green color, thin, alternate with long petioles, and quite characteristic round in shape leafed, the plant grows horizontally through its green to red stolones which combine to each other and roots in underground.