Ferula dubjanskyi

Korovin

Dzhaudzhamyr

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Ferula dubjanskyi
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Ferula dubjanskyi
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(c) Petr Kosachev, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Ferula dubjanskyi
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What to Eat

Edible parts: Vegetable

The plant is eaten as a vegetable.

Where to Find It

It is a temperate plant. It grows on sandy slopes in deserts between 400-600 m above sea level in western China.

Asia, Central Asia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Uzbekistan,

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 herb. It grows 50-70 cm tall. There is a single stem that is branched. The leaves are broadly oval and with leaflets along the stalk. The least segments are narrowly oval 5-10 mm long and with lobes. They are hairy underneath. The flowers are in compound groups at the top of the plant.

References (3)
  • Pavlov, Fl. centr. Kazakh. 2:539. 1934
  • USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN). [Online Database] National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Available: www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/econ.pl (10 April 2000)
  • World Checklist of Useful Plant Species 2020. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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