Launaea cornuta

Botanical Description

Launaea cornuta is a herbaceous perennial plant. It has a creeping root system that produces, at intervals along the root, a basal rosette of leaves with a central stem that is usually up to 1 metre tall, occasionally to 1.5 metres[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. , 332 Title The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. Publication Author Burkil. H. M. Publisher Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. Year 1985 - 2004 ISBN Description Brief descriptions and details of the uses of over 4,000 plants. A superb, if terse, resource, it is also available electronically on the Web - see http://www.aluka.org/ ]. The leaves are a bitter but popular vegetable in East Africa, whilst the plant also has local medicinal uses. The plant is usually harvested from the wild, but is also sometimes cultivated in eastern Africa as a leaf crop. It is often found for sale in local markets[ 299 Title Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa. Publication Author Website http://www.prota.org Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa. ].