Cerastium capense
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Description
A herb. It is erect and slender and grows 40 cm tall. It grows each year from seed. The leaves are narrowly oval and without a stalk. The flowers are white. The fruit is a capsule that splits into 10 lobes.
Edible Uses
The young plant is eaten as a potherb.
Traditional Uses
The young plant is eaten as a potherb.
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Distribution
It is a subtropical plant.
Where It Grows
Africa, South Africa, Southern Africa,
References (4)
- East African Herbarium records, 1981,
- Peters, C. R., O'Brien, E. M., and Drummond, R.B., 1992, Edible Wild plants of Sub-saharan Africa. Kew. p 79
- Ruiters-Welcome, A. K., 2019, Food plants of southern Africa. Ph.D. thesis. Univ. of Johannesburg p 42
- Welcome, A. K. & Van Wyk, B.-E., 2019, An inventory and analysis of the food plants of southern Africa. South African Journal of Botany 122 (2019) 136–179
