Aeginetia indica

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Aeginetia indica

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wild or cultivated


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Tropics of Asia. An annual, leafless, parasitic herb, growing on the roots of various grasses in India and the Indian Archipelago. Prepared with sugar and nutmeg, it is there eaten as an antiscorbutic[1].

  1. ↑ Black, A. A. Treas. Bot. 1:23. 1870.
Sturtevant, Notes on edible plants, 1919.


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