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Revision as of 05:06, 5 February 2019
Description
- Common Names
- Mud Tongue
- Classification
- Herbaceous, Flower
A common leafy plant of the Waejiran Plateau with a soft, velvety surface to its leaves, and pairs of whorled long petalled flowers on a reedy central stem. The mud tongue is so named for the mud-like taste of its leaves, which make an excellent bitter. The flowers see some use as a vasoconstrictor.
Ecology
- Rarity
- Common
- Distribution
- Sub-tropical savanna
- Life Cycle
- Annual, flowering mid summer, to produce seeds dispersed by wind in early autumn.
Uses
- Cultivation
- wild
- Culinary
- bitter (leaves)
- Medicinal
- vasoconstrictor (flowers)
- Other
