Hemsleya amabilis
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Description
A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It has an enlarged root tuber. It is oval. The stems and branches are very slender. It has tendrils 8-12 cm long. The leaves have 5-9 leaflets. The leaflets are narrowly sword shaped and 4-5 cm long by 1-2 cm wide. Male and female flowers are separate. The fruit is round and 12-20 mm across. The seeds are dark brown and 6-8 mm long by 5-7 mm wide.
Edible Uses
The seeds are eaten.
Distribution
It is a temperate plant. It grows in forests between 1,800-c,000 m above sea level. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
Where It Grows
Asia, China,
References (2)
- Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 5:106. 1912
- Yang, Si-Lin and Walters, T. W., 1992, Ethnobotany and the Economic role of the Cucurbitaceae of China. Economic Botany, Vol. 46, No. 4, pp. 349-367
