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| BRIEF DESCRIPTION: An erect herb with swollen roots and succulent stems, 30-100 cm tall. Leaves usually spathulate, 3-15 x 1-6 cm, entire or succulent. USES The leaves and shoots are usually consumed as a cooked vegetable. It is sometimes planted as an ornamental pot plant or as an edging plant in gardens. It has some medicinal properties. GROWING PERIOD: Perennial. Harvesting may start 40-55 days after sowing and thereafter by taken with two weeks interval up to about six months. COMMON NAMES: Waterleaf, Surinam purslane, sweetheart, Grasse, Poslen, Krokot belanda, Kumu manus, Talilong, Galaghati, Biala, Som-kaoli, Som-khon, Son-chin. FURTHER INF: Scientific synonym: T. racemosum, Portulaca triangularis, P. racemosa. Waterleaf is probably native of tropical America, it has now become a weed with pantropical distribution. It occurs naturally on roadsides, waste places, and forests edges, from sea level up to 1000 m. It has a C4 photosynthesis pathway. Yields have been estimated to about 10 kg/m˝ per crop. | Sources |
| Siemonsma J 1993 pp 268-269 [LIMIT, USE, LIG TEMP, DRA, RAIN, TEXT, FER] |
