Cirsium botryodes
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Description
A herb. It is a thistle. It grows 50-100 cm tall. It keeps growing from year to year. The stem are greyish white. They are hairy. The leaves are rigid and greyish white underneath. They are 12-16 cm long by 7-8 cm wide and divided along the stalk. There are spines along the edge.
Edible Uses
The leaves and roots are eaten.
Distribution
It is a temperate plant. In China it grows in mountain valleys and in grasslands on mountain slopes between 2,800-3,000 m above sea level. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
Where It Grows
Asia, China,
Also Known As
Xiaoji
References (2)
- Kang, Y., et al, 2012, Wild food plants and wild edible fungi in two valleys on the Qinling Mountains (Shaanxi, central China) Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine; 9:26
- Zhang, L., et al, 2016, Ethnobotanical study of traditional edible plants used by the Naxi people during droughts. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 12:39 (As Cirsium griseum Lev.)
