Acalypha paniculata — Edible Plant Database

What to Eat

Edible parts: Medicine, Caution

Leavs and young shoots - coked and eaten as a vegetable.

Known Hazards

Where to Find It

It is a tropical plant. It tends to grow in arid regions.

Africa, Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central Africa Republic, CAR, Chad, Congo DR, Congo R, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Malawi, Maldives, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe,

Countries: Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Botswana, Congo (DRC), Central African Republic, Congo (Republic), Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, India, Kenya, Comoros, Sri Lanka, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Maldives, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sao Tome & Principe, Eswatini, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe

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.