Gunnera manicata
Linden ex Delchev.
Giant rhubarb
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Stalks, Caution
The stalks are edible.
Known Hazards
Where to Find It
It is a temperate plant.
Australia, Britain, Europe, South America, Tasmania,
Countries: Andorra, Albania, Argentina, Austria, Australia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bolivia, Brazil, Belarus, Switzerland, Chile, Colombia, Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Spain, Finland, France, United Kingdom, French Guiana, Greece, Guyana, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Monaco, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Paraguay, Romania, Serbia, Russia, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, San Marino, Suriname, Ukraine, Uruguay, Venezuela
How to Identify
A very large, rhubarb-like temperate plant in the Gunneraceae family.
Wikipedia
Source ↗Gunnera manicata, known as Brazilian giant-rhubarb, giant rhubarb, or dinosaur food is a species of flowering plant in the family Gunneraceae from the coastal Serra do Mar Mountains of Santa Catarina, Parana and Rio Grande do Sul States, Brazil. In cultivation, the name G. manicata has regularly been wrongly applied to the hybrid with G. tinctoria, G. × cryptica.
Names & Synonyms
Gunnera brasiliensis Schindl.
