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Rheum officinale
Also called Tibetan Rhubarb
Chinese rhubarb is a large perennial herb from the buckwheat family, grown mainly for its medicinal rhizome and sometimes for its leaf stalks. It needs deep, fertile, well-drained soil and room to spread, as the leaves can reach around 75 cm across.
Rheum officinale, the Chinese rhubarb, or Indian rhubarb is a rhubarb from the family Polygonaceae native to western China and Tibet. In Chinese it is called yào yòng dà huáng (Chinese: 药用大黄), literally meaning medicinal rhubarb.
This species is endemic to southeast China, where it occurs in the provinces of Guizhou, southwestern Henan, western Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan and possibly Fujian.
Leaf petiole said to be edible raw or cooked.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rheum officinale 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.
