Is Talinum edible?
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Talinum paniculatum is often grown as an ornamental plant. Cultivars include 'Kingwood Gold', 'Limón', and 'Variegatum'. The leaves are edible and have been used in traditional medicine in Asia. Used in home medicine as a diuretic, healing, emollient, vulval and anti-infective, it is also consumed in salads.
Keeping this in view, how do you eat Talinum?
The leaves and shoots are usually consumed as cooked (boiled or steamed) vegetable. They are rather soft and watery and should not be cooked for long time. Talinum is also added raw to salads in the Sudanese cuisine in West Java. It is a mucilaginous vegetable with high oxalate content and is rich in saponins.
Also to know, what is the scientific name of Talinum?
Adans. Orygia Forssk. Talinum is a genus of herbaceous succulent plants in the family Talinaceae (formerly in the family Portulacaceae) whose common names include fameflower and flameflower.
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