Crassulaceae FAMILY

Sinocrassula indica

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

3/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Sinocrassula indica is a succulent, biennial plant growing from a fibrous rootstock; it produce a rosette of leaves in its first year and then an erect flowering stem 5 - 60cm tall in its second year of growth[ 266 Title Flora of China Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Press; St. Louis. Year 1994 ISBN Description An excellent, comprehensive resource in 25 volumes. In addition to the botanical information the flora also gives basic information on habitat and some uses. An on-line version is also available. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine. It is an ingredient in several proprietary medicines in China, Japan and the USA[ 1653 Title Further acylated flavonol bisdesmosides from Sinocrassula indica Publication Journal of Asian Natural Products Research, 2013 Vol. 15, No. 8, 885-890 Author Hai-Hui Xiea & Masayuki Yoshikawa Website http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10286020.2013.800973 Publisher Year 2013 ISBN Description ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeE. Asia - central and southern China, Pakistan, northern India, Nepal, Bhutan

HabitatRocks in valleys or on slopes, dry stony and gravelly slopes, river banks. At elevations from 500 - 4,000 metres[ 266 Title Flora of China Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Press; St. Louis. Year 1994 ISBN Description An excellent, comprehensive resource in 25 volumes. In addition to the botanical information the flora also gives basic information on habitat and some uses. An on-line version is also available. ].