Senecio burchellii
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Description
An herbaceous plant in the Asteraceae family from the Mediterranean region. The leaves are cooked and eaten as a green vegetable, and it can tolerate arid conditions.
Edible Uses
The leaves are cooked and eaten as a green vegetable.
Traditional Uses
The leaves are cooked and eaten as a green vegetable.
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Distribution
It is a Mediterranean plant. It can grow in arid places.
Where It Grows
Africa, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Southern Africa,
Synonyms
Senecio lichtensteinensis Dinter
References (5)
- Fox, F. W. & Young, M. E. N., 1982, Food from the Veld. Delta Books. p 124
- 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]
- Ruiters-Welcome, A. K., 2019, Food plants of southern Africa. Ph.D. thesis. Univ. of Johannesburg p 36
- 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
