Poetically, when we conjure up flowers in never-ending ... cattle roaming the Shivalik jungles ever foraging on this shrub. The answer lies in the shrub’s name. Adathoda means “untouched ...

Today, the 63-year-old Carianil, of the Curripako tribe, grows tons of the curious blooms on a plot outside Inirida -- the jungle city of 30,000 people from which the flower took its name.