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Senecio subcoriaceus

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(c) Troos van der Merwe, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Troos van der Merwe

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(c) Troos van der Merwe, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Troos van der Merwe

Description

An herb from the Asteraceae family found in Mediterranean and arid regions.

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Edible Uses

The leaves are cooked and eaten as a vegetable.

Traditional Uses

The leaves are cooked and eaten as a vegetable.

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Distribution

It is a Mediterranean plant. It can grow in arid places.

Where It Grows

Africa, Lesotho, South Africa, Southern Africa,

Synonyms

Senecio basutensis Thell.

References (4)

  • 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 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

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