Mayapple, Ban kakri, Podophyllum Peltatum – Plant

Description

Mayapples are woodland plants, typically growing in colonies derived from a single root. The stems grow to 30–40  cm tall, with palmately lobed umbrella-like leaves up to 20–40  cm diameter with 3–9 shallowly to deeply cut lobes. The plants produce several stems from a creeping underground rhizome; some stems bear a single leaf and do not produce any flower or fruit, while flowering stems produce a pair or more leaves with 1–8 flowers in the axil between the apical leaves. The flowers are white, yellow or red, 2–6  cm diameter with 6–9 petals, and mature into a green, yellow or red fleshy fruit 2–5  cm long.