Grown in home gardens Young shoots are used as vegetable. The stem and leaves are useful to relieve burning sensation, constipation, ulcers, dysentery, balanitis, fatigue and general debility. NARAHDISAS .N/OAF
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Young shoots are used as vegetable. The stem and leaves are useful to relieve burning sensation, constipation, ulcers, dysentery, balanitis, fatigue and general debility. NARAHDISAS .N/OAF
family
Basellaceae
synonym
Basella rubra L., Basella cordifolia Lam., Basella nigra Lour.
description
Twining fleshy herbs; stems × terete, glabrous. Leaves to 5 4 cm, ovate, acute or obtuse, rounded at base, fleshy; petiole 1 cm long. Flowers in axillary, stout, erect, 3-10 cm long spikes; bracts ovate, bracteoles orbicular. Perianth calycine, lobes 5, 4 mm long, united at base. Stamens 5, antitepalous, free. Ovary glabrous, 1-celled; ovule 1, styles 3, stigma linear. Utricle globose, 5 mm across, fleshy, white, glabrous.
native range
Tropical Asia and Africa NARAHDISAS .N/OAF
distribution
Widely cultivated in tropical and temperate regions.