Lythraceae FAMILY

Ammannia baccifera

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Ammannia baccifera is an erect, many-branched, annual herb usually growing 10 - 50cm tall with occasional specimens to 100cm[ 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 sometimes gathered from the wild for local use as a food and medicine.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeTropical Africa, through Asia to India, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines to Australia.

HabitatWet places and farmland in China[ 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. ]. Open, damp, waste places in the Philippines[ 360 Title Philippine Medicinal Plants Publication Author Website http://www.stuartxchange.org/CompleteList.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A lovely site, giving brief details on the medicinal uses of several hundred (over 400 at the last count) plants in the Philippines, plus a picture of each plant. ]. A very variable species, found in rice fields and other wet places in Pakistan at elevations up to 1,200 metres[ 305 Title Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk Publication Author Website http://www.hear.org/pier/scientificnames/index.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A very good website detailing weed species that have been introduced into the Pacific Islands. ].