Bataceae FAMILY

Batis maritima

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Beachwort is a dioecious, evergreen, succulent shrub producing trailing or ascending stems up to 1 metre long[ 426 Title Flowering Plants of Jamaica Publication Author Adams. C.D. Publisher University of the West Indies; Jamaica. Year 1972 ISBN Description A terse treatment of the flowering plants of Jamaica, with a botanical description of each plant, notes on habitat etc. ]. The stems, which have fleshy leaves and insignificant flowers, sometime loop back to the ground and form roots[ 426 Title Flowering Plants of Jamaica Publication Author Adams. C.D. Publisher University of the West Indies; Jamaica. Year 1972 ISBN Description A terse treatment of the flowering plants of Jamaica, with a botanical description of each plant, notes on habitat etc. ]. The leaves are sometimes gathered from the wild for use in salads, whilst the plant is also used as a source of potash[ 46 Title Dictionary of Economic Plants. Publication Author Uphof. J. C. Th. Publisher Weinheim Year 1959 ISBN - Description An excellent and very comprehensive guide but it only gives very short descriptions of the uses without any details of how to utilize the plants. Not for the casual reader. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeS. America - Brazil, Peru, north through Central America to southern N. America, the Caribbean.

HabitatLocally abundant and often forming large communities at the margins of salt marshes and estuarine flats[ 426 Title Flowering Plants of Jamaica Publication Author Adams. C.D. Publisher University of the West Indies; Jamaica. Year 1972 ISBN Description A terse treatment of the flowering plants of Jamaica, with a botanical description of each plant, notes on habitat etc. ].