Cullen tomentosum
(Thunb.) J. W. Grimes
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Description
A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It is covered with white hairs. The leaves have 3 leaflets and teeth around the edge. Flowers occur in groups of three. The fruit are small oval pods.
Edible Uses
The leaves are used to flavour tea. The roots are used to curdle milk and produce a yoghurt-like product with good taste.
Traditional Uses
The leaves are used to flavour tea, The roots are used to curdle milk. This gives and good taste an produces a kind of yoghurt.
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Distribution
It is a tropical plant. It grows in mountain locations and on dunes.
Where It Grows
Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Southern Africa,
Synonyms
Also Known As
Honab
References (5)
- Ruiters-Welcome, A. K., 2019, Food plants of southern Africa. Ph.D. thesis. Univ. of Johannesburg p 57
- Van Damme, P et al, 1922, Plant Uses by the Topnaar of the Kuiseb Valley Namib Desert. Afrika Focus Vol. 8(3-4):223-252 (As Cullen obtusifolia)
- van Wyk, Ben-Erik, 2019, The diversity and multiple uses of southern African legumes. Australian Systematic Botany, 2019, 32, 519–546
- 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
