The roots are cylindrical of 5-15 cm length and 2 cm in diameter, off white in colour light brown transverse lenticies. Its fracture is fibrous. Roots tastes sweet and mucilagenous. Leaves are simple ovate or ovate- lancolate.
Leaves are entire at the base and coarsely toothed at the apex.
Taste is mucilagenous. Flowers are pedicillate, actinomorphic, pentamerous and complete'. Corolla consists of 5 petals, red in colour and about 3 inches in diameter. Cyanidin diglycoside from flowers,taraxeryl acetate and 8-sitosterol from the leafy stems and cyanidin, quereetin, hentriacontane,calcium oxalate, thiamine,riboflavin,niacin and ascorbic acid have been detected in the plant. Flavonoids are also present.