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Asarum
Also called Vascular Plants, Tracheophytes
Asarum is a genus of low-growing, shade-loving herbs in the birthwort family, commonly called wild ginger; its species have kidney or heart-shaped leaves on creeping rhizomes and small brown or reddish jug-shaped flowers. Grow it in moist, humus-rich shade.
Asarum is a genus of plants in the birthwort family Aristolochiaceae, commonly known as wild ginger.
Asarum is from Greek ἄσαρον, a name for Asarum europaeum.
The FDA warns against consuming Asarum, as it is nephrotoxic and contains the potent carcinogen aristolochic acid. Before this was known, sources said that wild ginger can be cooked in the same fashion as ginger root, and can also be candied or used to make medicine.
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