Question

How long did it take the narrator to learn the fact about the medicinal creeper?What does it signify?

Answer 1

“Around a Medicinal Creeper” is a chapter written by K.P. Poornachandra Tejaswi who was a renowned environmentalist.

For him, it took twenty years which is quite a long time to learn the fact about the medicinal creeper. It took a very long time because the locals were not willing to share their traditional knowledge about the medicinal plants.

So that signifies that there were many traditional myths and beliefs related to the medicinal creeper. The locals never knew the true amazing uses of those plants but they just relied on the myths.