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Hydrocotyle asiatica
About
Centella asiatica, commonly known as Indian pennywort, Asiatic pennywort, spadeleaf, coinwort or gotu kola, is a herbaceous, perennial plant in the flowering plant family Apiaceae. It is native to tropical regions of Africa, Asia, Australia, and islands in the western Pacific Ocean. It is consumed as a culinary vegetable and is used in traditional medicine.
- Family
- Araliaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Hydrocotyle asiatica
- Slug
- hydrocotyle-asiatica
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Araliaceae
- Genus
- Hydrocotyle
- Species
- asiatica
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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