WorldFloraDB - Asclepias eriocarpa

Characteristics

A herb. It grows erect and keeps growing from year to year. It grows 90 cm tall. It usually have thick white hairs. The leaves are sword shaped and pairs or rings or 3 to 4. The flowers are in a large flattened cluster. They are white or cream with a pink tinge. The fruit is a large woolly follicle.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

herb

Growth support

-

Foliage retention

evergreen

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

entomogamy

Spread

-

Mature width (meter)

-

Mature height (meter)

0.9

Root system

-

Rooting depth (meter)

-

Root diameter (meter)

-

Flower color

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

-

Fruiting months

-

Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

-

Environment

Dry barren places; at elevations below 2,000 metres. Adobe flats, rocky barrens, open woods, fields, stream banks, spreading to roadsides.

More

It is a Mediterranean climate plant. It grows in dry areas. It suits USDA hardiness zones 7-10.

Light
Soil humidity
Soil texture
Soil acidity
Soil nutriment	-
Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

The latex has been used as a chewing gum. It is boiled in water until it coagulates.

Uses	fiber forage gum medicinal poison
Edible	stems
Therapeutic use	Other (root), Cold Remedy (unspecified), Dermatological Aid (unspecified), Respiratory Aid (unspecified), Wart (unspecified), Masticatory (unspecified)
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

Plants can be grown from seed or cuttings.

Mode	cuttings divisions seedlings
Germination duration (days)	30 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°)	10 - 23
Germination luminosity	-
Germination treatment	stratification
Minimum temperature (C°)	-35
Optimum temperature (C°)	-
Size	-
Vigor	-
Productivity	-