A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. The leaves form a ring. The leaves are oval and 1-4 cm long by 5-22 cm wide. The base is wedge shaped or heart shaped. There are 2-6 flowers in a group. They are white, pink or purple.
Life form | perennial | ||||||||||||
Growth form | herb | ||||||||||||
Growth support | free-standing | ||||||||||||
Foliage retention | evergreen | ||||||||||||
Sexuality | hermaphrodite | ||||||||||||
Pollination | entomogamy | ||||||||||||
Spread | - | ||||||||||||
Mature width (meter) | 0.2 | ||||||||||||
Mature height (meter) | 0.3 | ||||||||||||
Root system | - | ||||||||||||
Rooting depth (meter) | - | ||||||||||||
Root diameter (meter) | - | ||||||||||||
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Fruit color | - | ||||||||||||
Fruiting months | - | ||||||||||||
Nitrogen fixer | - | ||||||||||||
Photosynthetic pathway | - |
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Soil nutriment | - |
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Uses | medicinal |
Edible | leaves |
Therapeutic use | - |
Human toxicity | - |
Animal toxicity | - |
Mode | seedlings |
Germination duration (days) | 14 - 28 |
Germination temperacture (C°) | 20 |
Germination luminosity | - |
Germination treatment | - |
Minimum temperature (C°) | - |
Optimum temperature (C°) | - |
Size | - |
Vigor | - |
Productivity | - |
LSID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:702102-1 |
WFO ID | wfo-0001106285 |
COL ID | 4MCY9 |
BDTFX ID | - |
INPN ID | - |
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