Gerbera ambigua
(Cass.) Sch.Bip.
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Leaves
The leaves are eaten as a snack and also cooked as a vegetable and used for flavouring.
Where to Find It
It is a tropical plant. It grows between 1,100-1,920 m above sea level in savanna regions.
Africa, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Southern Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe,
How to Identify
A herb without a stem. It grows 35 cm tall. It grows from a thickened rootstock. The leaves are parallel to the ground in a ring near the base and 5-10 cm long by 2-4 cm wide. The flowers are yellow, pink or red. .
Wikipedia
Source ↗Gerbera ambigua is a species of flowering plant in the section Lasiopus of genus Gerbera belonging to the basal Mutisieae tribe within the large Asteraceae (or Compositae) family. It is indigenous to Southern Africa and commonly known as the Botterblom or Griekwateebossie in Afrikaans. It was first described by Carl Heinrich "Bipontinus" Schultz in Flora Journal in 1844.
Names & Synonyms
Botterblom, Itolandau
References (3)
- Magwede, K., van Wyk, B.-E., & van Wyk, A. E., 2019, An inventory of Vhavenḓa useful plants. South African Journal of Botany 122 (2019) 57–89
- Ruiters-Welcome, A. K., 2019, Food plants of southern Africa. Ph.D. thesis. Univ. of Johannesburg p 34
- 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
