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Vernonia esculenta - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 9/2009 © Jingxin Liu

Vernonia esculenta - Infructescence - Click to enlarge!

Infructescence; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 9/2009 © Jingxin Liu

Vernonia esculenta - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 9/2009 © Jingxin Liu

Dataset

Identifier: 1573
Date of entry: 10.02.2011
Last update: 12.01.2020

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2635)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2573)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2146)

      Order: Asterales (237)

        Family: Asteraceae (221)(family description)

          Genus: Vernonia (3)

            Epithet: esculenta Hemsl. ex Forb. & Hemsl. (4)

esculenta => edible, fit for human food

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habit: shrub, arborescent

Flower colour: pink, white

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