Sonchus dregeanus
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Leharasoa
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Description
A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows 12-90 cm high. It has a slightly woody taproot.
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Edible Uses
The leaves are cooked and eaten as a vegetable. The flowers are also edible.
Traditional Uses
The leaves are cooked and eaten as a vegetable.
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Distribution
It is a subtropical plant. It grows in sandy soils. It is often in grassland in moist locations. It can grow in arid places.
Where It Grows
Africa, Botswana, East Africa, Lesotho, Madagascar, South Africa, Southern Africa, Zimbabwe,
References (8)
- Fox, F. W. & Young, M. E. N., 1982, Food from the Veld. Delta Books. p 125
- Guillarmod, J., 1966, 1971,
- Letsela, T., et al, 2003, Plant Resources Used for Subsistence in Tsehlanyane and Boking in Lesotho. Economic Botany 57(4): 619-639
- Peters, C. R., O'Brien, E. M., and Drummond, R.B., 1992, Edible Wild plants of Sub-saharan Africa. Kew. p 92
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1999). Survey of Economic Plants for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (SEPASAL) database. Published on the Internet; http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/ceb/sepasal/internet [Accessed 14th April 2011]
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- Ruiters-Welcome, A. K., 2019, Food plants of southern Africa. Ph.D. thesis. Univ. of Johannesburg p 37
- 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
- World Checklist of Useful Plant Species 2020. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
