Curculigo sinensis
S. C. Chen
HypoxidaceaeFruit
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GBIF
GBIF
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit
The ripe fruit are eaten raw.
Where to Find It
It is a tropical plant. In Yunnan.
Asia, China,
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 has a short thick rhizome. The leaf stalk is 40 cm long. The leaves are oblong to sword shaped and 85 cm long by 4 cm wide. The flower stems are nodding and 15 cm long. There are 40 or more flowers in a group. The fruit is a berry 1.6 cm across.
Names & Synonyms
Mei la pa jia
References (1)
- Luo, B., et al, 2019, Wild edible plants collected by Hani from terraced rice paddy agroecosystem in Honghe Prefecture, Yunnan, China. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 15:56
