Ecdysanthera rosea

Hooker & Arnott

Sour creeper

Apocynaceae Edible: Leaves, Salt, Flowers

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Description

A climbing evergreen shrub. It has milky sap. The branches are thin and like wire. They are purplish-black. The current year's growth is leafy with a loose group of flowers at the end. The leaves are opposite. They are 3-7 cm long by 1-4 cm wide. The flowers are small and at the ends or branches. They are in groups 7-10 cm across.

Edible Uses

The leaves are cooked and eaten as a spice or flavoring. The flowers are also edible.

Traditional Uses

The leaves are cooked and eaten as a spice or flavouring.

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Distribution

It is a tropical plant. In Yunnan.

Where It Grows

Asia, China, Taiwan,

Also Known As

Songhei, Suen t'ang tsz

References (6)

Hu, Shiu-ying, 2005, Food Plants of China. The Chinese University Press. p 630
Hui, Y. H., Handbook of Food Science, Technology, and Engineering. Volume 2. Table 98:5
Kuo, W. H. J., (Ed.) Taiwan's Ethnobotanical Database (1900-2000), http://tk.agron.ntu.edu.tw/ethnobot/DB1.htm
Liu, Yi-tao, & Long, Chun-Lin, 2002, Studies on Edible Flowers Consumed by Ethnic Groups in Yunnan. Acta Botanica Yunnanica. 24(1):41-56
Reis, S. V. and Lipp, F. L., 1982, New Plant Sources for Drugs and Foods from the New York Botanical Garden herbarium. Harvard. p 242

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