Begonia eminii
Warb.
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Description
A herb. It can be attached to other plants. The leaves are alternate and oval. The flowers are white and the fruit are red.
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Edible Uses
Leaves - cooked and eaten as a vegetable. A pleasant, acid flavour, they are used as a substitute for sorrel (Rumex spp.). Fruit.
Traditional Uses
The leaves are cooked and eaten as a vegetable
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Distribution
It is a tropical plant.
Where It Grows
Africa, Central Africa, Congo DR,
Also Known As
Amabanjiko, Ansani, Bekaiyatoko, Kashukarabitare, Likaliyokoko
References (5)
- Grubben, G. J. H. and Denton, O. A. (eds), 2004, Plant Resources of Tropical Africa 2. Vegetables. PROTA, Wageningen, Netherlands. p 106
- Terashima, H., Ichikawa, M. & Ohta, L., (Ed.), 1991, A Flora: Catalog of Useful Plants of Tropical Africa. African study monographs. Supplementary issue (1991), 16:195
- Terashima, H., et al, 1992, Ethnobotany of the Lega in the Tropical Rainforest of Eastern Zaire (Congo): Part Two, Zone de Walikale, African Study Monographs, Suppl. 19:1-60
- Termote, C., et al, 2011, Eating from the wild: Turumbu, Mbole and Bali traditional knowledge of non-cultivated edible plants, District Tshopo, DRCongo, Gen Resourc Crop Evol. 58:585-618
- World Checklist of Useful Plant Species 2020. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
