Acer caudatum
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Sap, Leaves - tea
The sap is sweet and consumed fresh or processed into sugar. The leaves are also used to make tea.
Where to Find It
It is a temperate plant. It grows between 3,000-3,750 m above sea level.
Asia, China, Himalayas, India, Sikkim, Tibet,
How to Identify
A shrub or small tree. It grows 5 m tall. There are prickles along the stem. The leaves are twice divided and there are 8-18 pairs of pinnae. There are up to 50 pairs of pinnules on each pinnae. The flowers are yellow. They are in large clusters at the ends of branches. The pods are flattened.
Medicinal Uses
Traditional uses include sweetened sap for consumption and medicinal tea from the leaves.
Wikipedia
Source ↗Acer caudatum, commonly known as candle-shape maple, is an Asian species of maple trees. It is found in the Himalayas (Tibet, Nepal, northern and northeastern India, Myanmar) the mountains of southwestern China (Gansu, Henan, Hubei, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan), plus Japan, Korea, and eastern Russia. Acer caudatum is a deciduous tree up to 10 meters tall. Leaves are up to 12 cm across, thin and papery, dark green on the top, lighter green on the underside, usually with 5 lobes but occasionally 7. Varieties Acer caudatum subsp. caudatum Acer caudatum subsp. multiserratum (Maxim.) A.E.Murray Acer caudatum subsp. ukurundense (Trautv. & C.A.Mey.) E.Murray
Names & Synonyms
Kabashi, Kapashe, Long de bi ya
References (4)
- Badwar, R. R., & Fernandez, R. R., 2011, Edible Wild Plants of the Himachal Pradesh State by IHBT, Himalayas, Daya Publishing House,. Delhi, India (As Acer papilio)
- Chen, W., et al, 2021, Wild plants used by the Lhoba people in Douyu Village, characterized by high mountains and valleys, in southeastern Tibet, China. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2021) 17:46
- Sundrayal, M., et al, 2004, Dietary Use of Wild Plant Resources in the Sikkim Himalaya, India. Economic Botany 58(4) pp 626-638
- Wild edible plants of Himachal Pradesh (As Acer papilio)
