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Coleus esculentus

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{{Species page (seed plant)
|image = None50x50Coleus esculentus tubercules Scamperdale.jpg
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|author = <br>(N. E. Br.) G. Taylor|order = Lamiales|family = Lamiaceae|genus = Coleus|nb chromosomes = 2n = 24|origin = area of originTropical Afrika
|status = wild or cultivated
|english = Kaffir potato|french = Coléus à racine comestible
}}
 
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|title = Uses summary
|color = lightgreen
|text =*starchy tuber* leaves: occasional vegetable* medicinal
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== Description ==
<gallery mode="packed">File:Coleus esculentus plante Scamperdale.jpg|Whole plantFile:Plectranthus esculentus00.jpg|flowers</gallery>* perennial plant, with thick and fleshy rhizomes* aerial erect and hairy stems erect 0.5-1.5 m* spikes or cymes devoid of bracts, bearing flowers with elongated yellow corolla, emerging on the marcescent stems, more or less recumbent (Chevalier)
== Popular names ==
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
| English
| kaffir potato, Livingstone potato, African potato, coleus potato, finger potato
|-
| French
| Coléus à racine comestible, Coléus d’Afrique du Sud, Dazo, Pomme de terre Kaffir
|-
| Kinyarwanda
| Uruhombo
|-
| Afrikaans
| Wilde aartappel, Veldaartappel
|-
| Xhosa
| itapile
|-
| Shona
| tsenza
|-
| Venda
| mutada
|-
| Zulu
| ujango, ujilo, umbondwe, umhlaza
|-
| Ndebele
| umbondiwe
|}
 
== Classification ==
''Coleus esculentus'' (N. E. Br.) G. Taylor (1931)
 
basionym :
*''Plectranthus esculentus'' N. E. Br. (1894)
 
synonyms :
*''Plectranthus floribundus'' N. E. Br. (1894)
*''Coleus dazo'' A.Chev. (1905)
*''Coleus floribundus'' (N.E.Br.) Robyns & Lebrun (1928), nom. illeg., non ''C. floribundus'' Baker
== Cultivars ==
== History ==
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Chevalier already noted in 1953 the regression of the culture of this species.
== Uses ==
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|text= Grown as a traditional food plant in tropical Africa. Recently in danger of extinction. The farinaceous tubers are eaten cooked, sometimes raw, or pickled. Different centres of cultivation (Burkina Faso, Kano and Zaria in Nigeria, Ubangi and Lower Congo, Zambia, Malawi and Zimbabwe) have developed their own cultivars.
|author =Mansfeld.
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== References ==
* Chevalier, Auguste & Perrot, Emile, 1905. Les ''Coleus'' à tubercules alimentaires. in ''Végétaux Utiles de l'Afrique tropicale française'', Vol. I, fasc. 1, p. 100-152.
* Chevalier, Auguste, 1930. Notes et actualités. Une plante vivrière africaine : le ''Coleus floribundus'' et ses variétés. ''Revue de botanique appliquée et d'agriculture coloniale'', '''10''' (104) : 254-255. [www.persee.fr/doc/jatba_0370-3681_1930_num_10_104_4852 Persée].
* Chevalier Auguste, 1938. Les Labiées cultivées ou utilisées dans les Pays tropicaux. ''Revue de botanique appliquée et d'agriculture coloniale'', '''18''' (203) : 470-488. [https://doi.org/10.3406/jatba.1938.5884 doi : 10.3406/jatba.1938.5884]
* Chevalier, Auguste, 1953. Labiées du Genre ''Coleus'' Loureiro cultivées dans les Pays tropicaux de l'Ancien Monde. ''Revue internationale de botanique appliquée et d'agriculture tropicale'', '''33''' (369-370) : 334-341. [https://doi.org/10.3406/jatba.1953.6788 doi : 10.3406/jatba.1953.6788]
*''Lost Crops of Africa. Volume II: Vegetables'', 2006. Washington, National Academies Press. 354 p. [https://www.nap.edu/read/11763/chapter/1 en ligne]
== Links ==
*[http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/details.php?langue=fr&id=116854 BD des Plantes d'Afrique]
*[http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search.aspx?SearchTerm=Plectranthus%20esculentus&SearchCat= BHL]
*[http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropFindForm FAO Ecocrop]
*[httphttps://www.feedipedia.org/ Feedipedia]*[http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/comindx.html Grieve's herbal]*[http://wwwnpgsweb.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bingringlobal/npgstaxon/html/tax_search.pltaxonomydetail?Plectranthus%20esculentus id=400149 GRIN]
*[http://www.ipni.org/ipni/simplePlantNameSearch.do?find_wholeName=Plectranthus%20esculentus&amp;output_format=normal&amp;query_type=by_query&amp;back_page=query_ipni.html IPNI]
*[https://www.nap.edu/read/11763/chapter/17 Lost Crops of Africa]*[http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrcapex/f?p=185:4546:13291644128746016404180342897::NO::P7_BOTNAMEmodule,P7_DB_CHECKBOX1mf_use,P7_DB_CHECKBOX2source,P7_DB_CHECKBOX4akzanz,rehm,akzname,taxid:Plectranthus%20esculentusmf,,botnam,0,, Mansfeld]*[http://herb.umd.umich.edu/herb/search.pl?searchstring=Plectranthus%20esculentus Moerman, Native American Ethnobotany15787 Mansfeld]
*[http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Plectranthus.html Multilingual Plant Name Database]
*[http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/nexus/Plectranthus_esculentus_nex.html NewCrop Purdue]
*[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Plectranthus+esculentus Plant List]
*[http://pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Plectranthus%20esculentus Plants for a future]*[http://proseanet.org/prosea/e-prosea.php PROSEA]*[[Plectranthus esculentus (PROTA)|PROTA on Pl@ntUse]]*[http://www.prota4u.org/protav8.asp?en=1&p=Plectranthus+esculentus Prota4U]*[httphttps://www.tela-botanica.org/page:eflore_bdtfx?referentiel=bdtfx&niveau=2&module=fiche&action=fiche&type_nom=nom_scientifique&nom=Plectranthus%20esculentus apd-nn-116854 Tela Botanica]
*[http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Plectranthus%20esculentus Useful Tropical Plants Database]
*[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plectranthus%20esculentus Wikipédia]
*[http://wwwpza.wikiphytosanbi.org/wiki/Plectranthus%20esculentus Wikiphytocoleus-esculentus PlantZAfrica]
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