Oxalis abercornensis

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OxalidaceaeRoots

Oxalis abercornensis

gbif · cc-by
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Oxalis abercornensis

gbif · cc-by
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Oxalis abercornensis

gbif · cc-by
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

What to Eat

Edible parts: Tuber, Root

Where to Find It

It is a tropical plant.

Africa,

Countries: Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Botswana, Congo (DRC), Central African Republic, Congo (Republic), Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Comoros, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sao Tome & Principe, Eswatini, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe

How to Identify

A tropical herb in the Oxalidaceae family with edible tubers and roots.

Notes

An unresolved name in The Plant List.

References (2)

East African Herbarium roecrods, 1981,
Peters, C. R., O'Brien, E. M., and Drummond, R.B., 1992, Edible Wild plants of Sub-saharan Africa. Kew. p 158

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