Meliosma arnottiana
(Wight) Walp.
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Leaves, Leaves - tea
The leaves and tender shoots are eaten in salads and brewed as a tea substitute.
Where to Find It
It is a subtropical plant. In Yunnan. It grows between 500-2,000 m above sea level.
Asia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, S. Korea, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, SE Asia, Sri Lanka, Thailand,
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 tree. It grows 20 m tall. The young branches are brown. Parts of the plant can be hairy. The leaves have an odd number of leaflets. There are 7-15 leaflets. They are 6-14 cm long by 2.5-4 cm wide.
Names & Synonyms
Ye jia yang
Meliosma pinnata subsp. arnottiana (Wight) BeusekomMeliosma pinnata var. arnottiana (Wight) BeusekomMeliosma wallichii Planch ex Hook.f.Millingtonia arnottiana Wight
References (1)
- Cao, Y., et al, 2020, Ethnobotanical study on wild edible plants used by three trans-boundary ethnic groups in Jiangcheng County, Pu’er, Southwest China. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2020) 16:66
