Characteristics
A herb that keeps growing from year to year. It has an underground stem or rhizome. It produces a patch of leaves. The leaves have many pairs of oval shaped leaflets that have blunt lobes. The leaves can be 40 cm long. The flowers are at the top of erect stems. They are in a ball that is densely packed. The flowers are white. The fruit is a round capsule with 2 seeds.
| Life form |
perennial
|
| Growth form |
herb
|
| Growth support |
-
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| Foliage retention |
-
|
| Sexuality |
hermaphrodite
|
| Pollination |
-
|
| Spread |
-
|
| Mature width (meter) |
-
|
| Mature height (meter) |
0.5
|
| Root system |
rhizome
|
| Rooting depth (meter) |
0.4
|
| 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 |
c3
|
Environment
Thickets, dense or open woods and moist open places.
| Light |
|
| Soil humidity |
|
| Soil texture |
|
| Soil acidity |
|
| Soil nutriment |
-
|
| Hardiness (USDA) |
|
Usage
The roots are cooked and eaten. The young leaves are eaten in salads.
Cultivation
Can be grown by seedlings.
| Mode |
seedlings
|
| Germination duration (days) |
-
|
| Germination temperacture (C°) |
-
|
| Germination luminosity |
-
|
| Germination treatment |
-
|
| Minimum temperature (C°) |
-
|
| Optimum temperature (C°) |
-
|
| Size |
-
|
| Vigor |
-
|
| Productivity |
-
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