Friday, June 7, 2024

Eryngium foetidum L.

Family: Apiaceae

Synonym: Eryngium antihystericum Rottler.

Vernacular name: Long Coriander, Mexican coriander

Habit: Herb

Habitat: Cosmopilitian

Distribution: India, Indigenous to America, Introduced in Africa, Asia.

Flowering and Fruiting: August-December

Key identification features: Perennial aromatic herbs, tuberous roots, dichotomously branched stems. Simple leaves, oblanceolate-spathulate, spinous-toothed margin;. White flowers in oblong-cylindrical umbels. Ellipsoid fruit.

Uses: Leaves are eaten raw or cooked. Used for burns, earache, fevers, hypertension, constipation, fits, asthma, stomachache, infertility complications, snake bites.

 

 


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