Saussurea medusa
Maxim.
AsteraceaeFlowers
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Flowers
The flowers are eaten.
Where to Find It
It is a temperate plant. It grows on rocky slopes and alpine scree slopes between 3,000-5,600 m above sea level in Tibet. In Yunnan.
Asia, China, Tibet,
Countries: United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Brunei, Bhutan, China, Georgia, Indonesia, Israel, India, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, North Korea, South Korea, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Laos, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Mongolia, Maldives, Malaysia, Nepal, Oman, Philippines, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Syria, Thailand, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Taiwan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen
How to Identify
A herb. It grows 6-20 cm tall. It keeps growing from year to year. There is a single stem 1-2 cm across. The lower leaves are in a ring and these and lower stem leaves have leaf stalks. The leaves are broadly oval or fan shaped. They are 1-8 cm long by 1-5 cm wide. There are teeth or lobes along the edge. The flowers heads are in large groups 3-7 cm across.
References (1)
- Liu, Yi-tao, & Long, Chun-Lin, 2002, Studies on Edible Flowers Consumed by Ethnic Groups in Yunnan. Acta Botanica Yunnanica. 24(1):41-56
