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Artanema longifolium

Artanema longifolium
Photo: Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 4.0

Artanema longifolium is a small perennial herb in the Linderniaceae found in tropical Africa, India and South-East Asia. It is grown mainly as a wild or medicinal plant rather than an ornamental, and is adapted to seasonally dry tropical conditions.

Family
Linderniaceae (Linderni family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Water moderately during the growing season and let the soil dry out between waterings, since it tolerates seasonal dryness.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or loamy soil.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Edible
Yes, some parts
Native range
Trop. Old World
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Artanema longifolium is an edible flowering plant species found in tropical Africa, India and South-East Asia. Extracts are used in Ayurveda medicines to treat myositis and nausea. The leaves can also be cooked and eaten as a leafy vegetable. The roots are root used to treat rheumatism, diarrhea, syphilis and ophthalmitis.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Artanema longifolium by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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