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Panax pseudoginseng Wall.

Ginseng (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Apiales > Araliaceae > Panax

Characteristics

Herbs, perennial, ca. 50 cm tall. Rootstock short, with 2-5 fleshy roots, fusiform, 2-4 cm, ca. 1 cm in diam. Leaves usually 4, verticillate at apex of stem, palmately compound; bases of petiole and petiolules with numerous lanceolate, stipulelike appendages; leaflets 3 or 4, obovate-elliptic to obovate-oblong, 9-10 × 3.5-4 cm (lateral ones smaller), membranous, abaxially glabrous, adaxially setose on veins (trichomes 1.5-2 mm), base attenuate, margin biserrate, apex long caudate-acuminate. Inflorescence a solitary, terminal umbel 20-50-flowered; peduncle ca. 12 cm; pedicels ca. 1 cm, glabrous. Ovary 2-carpellate; styles 2 divided, reflexed.
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A herb. It grows to 60 cm high. It has a fattened tuberous rootstock. The leaves have stalks. The leaves are divided like fingers on a hand into leaflets which have a very small stalk. The leaflets are 5-15 cm long by 0.8-6 cm wide. They are sword shaped and taper to the tip. They have fine teeth around the edge. They have bristly hairs on both surfaces. The flowers are white.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.7
Mature height (meter) 1.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
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Nitrogen fixer -
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Environment

Forests and shrubberies, 2,100-4,300 metres in C. Nepal in the Himalayas. Moist shady places at elevations from 2,000-3,300 metres in Nepal.
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A subtropical plant. In Nepal they grow between 2000-3300 m altitude. They grow in moist, shady places.
Light 1-6
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 6-8

Usage

The young leaves and shoots are cooked as a vegetable.
Uses food medicinal
Edible leaves roots shoots
Therapeutic use Alterative (unspecified), Anodyne (unspecified), Atherosclerosis (unspecified), Boil (unspecified), Bruise (unspecified), Carminative (unspecified), Dysmenorrhea (unspecified), Epistaxis (unspecified), Estrogenic (unspecified), Expectorant (unspecified), Extravasation (unspecified), Fever (unspecified), Gonadotrophic (unspecified), Hematoptysis (unspecified), Hypertension (unspecified), Hypotension (unspecified), Masticatory (unspecified), Preventitive (unspecified), Puerperium (unspecified), Sedative (unspecified), Tonic (unspecified), Swelling (unspecified), Cancer (unspecified), Hemostat (unspecified), Stimulant (unspecified), Enterrhagia (unspecified), Anti-arrhythmia agents (unspecified), Antipyretics (unspecified), Aphrodisiacs (unspecified), Dyspepsia (unspecified), Expectorants (unspecified), General tonic for rejuvenation (unspecified), Vomiting (unspecified), Immunostimulant (whole plant), Anti-inflammatory agents (whole plant), Stress, physiological (whole plant)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Plants are grown from seed.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Productivity -

Distribution

Panax pseudoginseng world distribution map, present in China and Nepal

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:91543-1
WFO ID wfo-0000263687
COL ID 4C9M9
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Aralia pseudoginseng Panax pseudoginseng Panax schin-seng Aralia quinquefolia var. pseudoginseng Panax schin-seng var. nepalensis Panax pseudoginseng var. pseudoginseng
WorldFloraDB 2024