Tigau

Scientific Name: Calicarpa Candicans 

• Callicarpa means beautiful fruit 
• Candican is the latin word for whitish.

English Name: Malabar Hoary

Tigaw is the Cebuano term of  the Malabar Hoary,a shrub that grows abundatly on vacant lots and thickets all over the archipelago.

The shrub has a purplish or lavender flower,the leaves are oval in shape and bears a green round small fruit that turns lavender when ripened.

Common uses in the Philippines;

• Roots- root decotion is taken to relieve or treat stomachache and given as wash to relieve skin diseases.
• Leaves- leaves are smoked and used to relieve asthma. 

In fishponds Tigau Leaves are pounded to paralyzed fish and its fruits are used to poisoned chickens.