Eupatorium fortunei — Edible Plant Database

What to Eat

Edible parts: Leaves, Root

The leaves and roots are eaten as edible portions.

Known Hazards

The plant is used medicinally in both Japan and China. In Traditional Chinese Medicine it is indicated for poor appetite, nausea and vomiting due to 'dampness' obstructions or summer heat. Its modern usage includes stomach flus and acute gastritis, in conjunction with other herbs including Huo Xiang (Agastache rugosa). Eupatorium fortunei contains tumorigenic pyrrolizidine alkaloids.

Where to Find It

It is a temperate plant. It is frost hardy. In China it grows at about 2,000 m above sea level. In XTBG Yunnan. In Sichuan.

Asia, China, Indochina, Japan, Korea, SE Asia, Thailand, Vietnam,

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 shrub. It grows 1-1.5 m tall and spreads 30 cm-1 m wide. It forms clumps and keeps growing from year to year. The leaves are opposite and divided. They have sharp teeth. The flowers are white and in groups.

Medicinal Uses

It is used in traditional medicine.

Wikipedia

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Eupatorium fortunei is a plant species in the family Asteraceae native from Asia where it is rare in the wild but commonly cultivated. The white to reddish colored flowers and herbage smell like lavender when crushed. In China the plants are used to make fragrant oils.

Other Information

It is cultivated.

Notes

There are about 40 Eupatorium species. It is used in medicine.

Names & Synonyms

Eupatorium caespitosum MigoEupatorium japonicum var. fortuneiEupatorium stoechadasum Hance

References (4)

Brown, D., 2002, The Royal Horticultural Society encyclopedia of Herbs and their uses. DK Books. p 209
Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 24(1):170. 1851
Plants for a Future database, The Field, Penpol, Lostwithiel, Cornwall, PL22 0NG, UK. http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/pfaf/
Zeven, A. C. & de West, J. M. J., 1982, Dictionary of cultivated plants and their regions of diversity. Wageningen. p 51 (As Eupatorium stoechadosum Hance)