Asteraceae FAMILY

Acmella alba

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Acmella alba is an erect, branched, herbaceous perennial plant that can grow up to 70cm tall, sometimes rooting at the lower nodes[ 457 Title Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden Vol. 62 Publication Author Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Year 1975 ISBN Description An excellent botanical publication, available for download from the Internet. This volume contains the Asclepiadaceae section of the Flora of Panama. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food and a medicine medicine. It is possibly cultivated as a food plant in Madagascar[ 1438 Title Food Plants in the Americas: A Survey of the Domesticated, Cultivated, and Wild Plants Used for Human Food in North, Publication Author Kermath B.M.; Bennett B.C.' Pulsipher L.M. Publisher Year 2014 ISBN Description A pre-publication draft of an amazing, on-going work first started in 1985. It contains information on more than 3,900 taxa from the Americas - from Arctic regions to the Tropics ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeS. America - ?Brazil, Peru, Ecuador; C. America - Panama to El Salvador.

HabitatOpen river banks[ 521 Title Useful Plants of the Siona and Secoya Indians of Eastern Ecuador. Publication Fieldiana Botany New Series No. 15 Author Vickers W.T.; Plowman T. Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Publisher Field Museum of Natural History; USA. Year 1984 ISBN 0015 - 0746 Description Very terse, but it gives the uses of a large number of species. It can be downloaded from the Internet. ]. A weed of moist places[ 457 Title Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden Vol. 62 Publication Author Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Year 1975 ISBN Description An excellent botanical publication, available for download from the Internet. This volume contains the Asclepiadaceae section of the Flora of Panama. ].