Plectranthus esculentus
Overview
Plant
Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. Precise definitions of the kingdom vary, but as the term is used here, plants include familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The group is also called green plants or...
in the Lamiaceae
Lamiaceae
The mints, taxonomically known as Lamiaceae or Labiatae, are a family of flowering plants. They have traditionally been considered closely related to Verbenaceae, but in the 1990s, phylogenetic studies suggested that many genera classified in Verbenaceae belong instead in Lamiaceae...
family. It is indigenous to Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
, where it is grown for its edible tubers. It is more difficult to cultivate than Plectranthus rotundifolius
Plectranthus rotundifolius
Plectranthus rotundifolius is an herbaceous plant native to West Africa, now grown especially in South Asia and Southeast Asia as a leaf vegetable and a tuber vegetable....
, but able to give greater yields.
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