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Wollastonia biflora
Also called Beach Sunflower
In Singapore: Sea Daisy, Serenai Laut, Sea Ox-Eye, Pokok Serunai (Native to Singapore, Least Concern)
Honolulu Nehe is a fast-growing, sprawling or scrambling subshrub that colonises beaches and disturbed ground across the Indo-Pacific. It is tough and salt-tolerant, so it suits warm, sunny, free-draining sites rather than cultivated borders.
Wollastonia biflora (syn. Melanthera biflora) also known as sea daisy, beach daisy and sea ox-eye, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is a scandent, rough-looking and fast-growing plant with a wide distribution.
Wollastonia biflora is a moderately salt-tolerant plant found in the tropical belt of the Indo-Pacific region, including China, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Queensland, and islands of the Pacific such as Fiji, Niue, Tonga, Samoa and the Cook Islands.
Despite the rough appearance of the plant, the leaves are edible. In Malaysian cuisine the shoots are eaten cooked as a leaf vegetable and in Langkawi they are eaten raw with chilli and sambal shrimp paste.
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Wollastonia biflora 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.
