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Sweetjuice

Glinus

Also called Sweet Juice

Sweetjuice
Photo: J.M.Garg, CC BY 3.0

Glinus is a genus of low, squat annual herbs in the Molluginaceae family, including the sweetjuice (Glinus oppositifolius), grown and foraged mainly in tropical and subtropical regions. They grow easily from seed in warm, open ground.

Family
Molluginaceae (Mollugin family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then allow the top of the soil to dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile soil or garden loam.
Temperature
20–35 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Easy
Safety
Not known to be toxic

About

Glinus is a genus of tropical and subtropical plants in the family Molluginaceae. Plants of this genus are sometimes called sweetjuice. They are squat annual herbs with fuzzy to hairy green herbage. The fruit is a capsule containing many kidney-shaped seeds. Some species are used as herbal remedies and some are eaten as food.

Other Glinus plants

Lotus sweetjuice

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Glinus 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.

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