Ti Plant originates from East Asia and has spread to Asia, France, Polynesia, Hawaii, and New Zealand. This plant is commonly used as an ornamental plant, a border plant or hedge in plantations, and as a traditional medicinal plant.

Grows well in lowlands up to an altitude of 1,900 meters above sea level, in shady places, on loose soil with a soil pH of 5.5-6.5 and requires moderate sunlight.

• The roots are fibrous and yellowish-white.

• The stem is round, hard, with prominent leaf scars. It is branched, off-white, and grows monopodially.

• The leaves are lanceolate, with pointed tips and bases, wavy edges, pinnate veins, and papery, purple flesh.

• The flowers are compound, purple panicles, emerging from the leaf axils and measuring 30 cm across.

• The fruit is a round, shiny red berry.

• The seeds are black.

Propagation is done by stem cuttings, or by separating shoots that grow at the base of the stem underground.

Antidiarrheal, antioxidant, coughing up blood, bleeding hemorrhoids and headaches, treating stomach and heartburn pain, overcoming irregular menstruation, relieving asthma symptoms.

Flavonoids, steroids, saponins, alkaloids, terpenoids, calcium oxalate, polyphenols, iron, tannins, linoleic acid, smilagenin, sterols, tyramine, cholestine glycocides, fructan, quercetin.