Conyza scabrida
DC.
Albany gall-stick bush
AsteraceaeLeaves
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Leaves
The leaves are cooked and used as a vegetable.
Where to Find It
It is a subtropical plant. It grows between 5-1,920 m above sea level. It can grow in arid places.
Africa, Botswana, East Africa, Eswatini, Namibia, South Africa, Southern Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe,
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 shrub. It can grow 1.2 m high. The stems have soft hairs. The leaves are on slender leaf stalks 1 cm long. The leaves are 6 cm long by 2 cm wide. They are narrowly sword shaped and have 3 veins from the base.
Names & Synonyms
Isavu, Ndilela, Uhlabu, Umanzimnyama
Conyza ivifolia (L.) Less.Pluchea scabrida DC.Baccharis ivaefolia L.
References (2)
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1999). Survey of Economic Plants for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (SEPASAL) database. Published on the Internet; http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/ceb/sepasal/internet [Accessed 11th April 2011]
- Ruiters-Welcome, A. K., 2019, Food plants of southern Africa. Ph.D. thesis. Univ. of Johannesburg p 33
