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<big>''[[Argusia argentea]]'' (L.f.) H. Heine</big>
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:Family: Boraginaceae

== Synonyms ==

*''Tournefortia argentea'' L.f.,
*''Messerschmidia argentea'' (L.f.) Johnston.
* <font color=#901040>Accepted name is now (2016): ''Heliotropium foertherianum'' Diane & Hilger (2003).</font>

== Vernacular names ==

*Velvet leaf (En)
*Indonesia: babakoan (West Java), karpo (Ternate), moral babulu (Ambon)
*Philippines: kapal-kapal (Tagalog), salakapo (Ilocano), bukabuk (Bisaya)
*Vietnam: bạc biển, phong ba.

== Distribution ==

Around warmer parts of the Indian Ocean and the Pacific, wild and cultivated.

== Uses ==

Leaves have the taste of parsley and can be eaten raw. They are also dried and smoked like tobacco. In Vietnam the leaves are used as medicine against the venom of sea-snakes.

== Observations ==

*Crooked tree or erect shrub, up to 10 m tall.
*Leaves alternate, obovate to lanceolate, 10-32 cm × 3-13 cm, fleshy, densely silvery hairy on both sides.

Typical along sandy seashores.

== Selected sources ==

7, 20, 27, 44, 57.


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