Chlorophytum occurs as genus of astir 200-220 metal money of evergreen perennial flowering plants in the Agavaceae, native to the tropical & semitropical regions of Africa and Asia.

It develop to 10-60 cm tall, by owning the rosette of yearn, slender leaves 15-75 cm long & Zero.Five-Two cm broad, growing from either the heavy, heavy rhizome. A flowers are microscopic, ordinarily white, produced in thin panicles up to Great hundred cm hanker; inside a few coinage a panicle as well bears plantlets, which steady down in bouncing on a ground.

Chlorophytum comosum, the Spider flower, the indigen of South Africa, is a super popular houseplant.

Chlorophytum borivilianum is eaten as a leaf vegetable in some area of India, and its roots come utilized medicinally as a sex tonic under a title safed moosli. A medicative value is thought to derive from either its saponin content, up to Seventeen percent by dry weight. When medicative require has increased, a plant has been brought under cultivation. [http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/CropFactSheets/safedmoosli.html]