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Aster tongolensis

Aster tongolensis
Photo: Kurt Stueber, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Bulb
Native range
Tibet to China (S. Gansu, W. Sichuan, NW. Yunnan)
Climate
temperate

About

Aster tongolensis, commonly called East Indies aster, is a plant species of the genus Aster. Along with Aster souliei, it has been used in traditional Tibetan medicine for thousands of years as treatment for bronchitis, difficulty in urinating, and hemoptysis caused by tuberculosis.

Other Aster plants

Rough Surface Aster · Alpine aster · European Michaelmas-daisy · Composite · Aster formosanus · Frikart's Aster · Korean Montane Aster · Aster iinumae · Miyamayomena koraiensis · Maack’s Aster · Aster neoelegans · Aster quitensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aster tongolensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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