Pithecoctenium cynanchoides

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Imosikiot lhele, Toksiaka

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What to Eat

Edible parts: Fruit

The inner portion of the unripe fruit capsule is eaten as a vegetable.

It is a temperate plant.

Argentina, South America,

Countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Paraguay, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela

A tree in the Bignoniaceae family found in temperate regions. It produces unripe fruit capsules with an edible inner portion.

References (1)

Arenas, P. and Scarpa, G. F., 2006, Edible wild plants of the Chorote Indians, Gran Chaco, Argentina. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. Vol. 153 (1): pp 73-85