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What to Eat
Edible parts: Leaves, Vegetable, Root
The leaves and roots are eaten as a vegetable.
Where to Find It
It is a subtropical plant. It grows along roadsides in Yunnan at about 1,000 m above sea level. In Argentina it also grow from sea level to 1,000 m above sea level.
Africa, Argentina, Asia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, China, Dominican Republic, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, North America, Northeastern India, Paraguay, SE Asia, South America*, West Africa, West Indies,
A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. There are several stems and they form roots at the nodes. They lie along the ground. They are 20-40 cm long. The leaves are almost round and 2 cm long by 1 cm wide. The fruit is a flattened round capsule with 2 sections and 4 valves and 1-3 seeds.
Evolvulus nummularius, also known as the dwarf morning glory, is a species of flowering plant in the morning-glory family. It is an annual or perennial plant.
Names & Synonyms
Golpatalota
Convolvulus nummularius L.Evolvulus dichondroides Oliv.Evolvulus nummularius var. grandifolia HoeneEvolvulus repens D. ParodiEvolvulus veronicaeifolius KunthEvolvulus yunnanensis S. H. HuangVolvulopsis nummularium (L.) Roberty
References (2)
Barua, U., et al, 2007, Wild edible plants of Majuli island and Darrang districts of Assam. Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge 6(1) pp 191-194
Kumar, R. & Saikia, P., 2020, Wild edible plants of Jharkhand and their utilitarian perspectives. Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge Vol 19 (2), April 2020, pp 237-250
