Moraea virgata
Jacq.
IridaceaeRoots
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Root, Tuber, Corm
The roots, tubers, and corms are eaten raw.
Where to Find It
It is a Mediterranean climate plant. It can grow in arid places.
Africa, Australia, South Africa*, Southern Africa,
Countries: Angola, Australia, 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 herb. It is a corm or bulb plant. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows 20-85 cm tall. There are 2 or 3 narrow leaves. The flowers are yellow.
Wikipedia
Source ↗Moraea virgata is a plant species in the family Iridaceae.
Names & Synonyms
Hexaglottis virgata (Jacq.) SweetIxia virgata (Jacq.) Willd.and others
References (3)
- 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 18th April 2011] (As Hexaglottis virgata)
- Ruiters-Welcome, A. K., 2019, Food plants of southern Africa. Ph.D. thesis. Univ. of Johannesburg p 68
- 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
