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Basella alba
Basella alba
- Botanic Family
- Basellaceae
- Author
- Linnaeus
- Propagation
- C.S.
- Cultivated
- C, vegetable, ornamental with cultivars
- Hardiness Zone
- Min10C
- Offspring
- Basella alba 'Cordifolia', Basella alba 'Rubra'
Common Names
- Indian Spinach
- Malabar Spinach
- Ceylon Spinach
- Malabar Nightshade
- Basella
- Creeping Spinach
- Gandola
- Poi
- Saan Choy
- Shan Tsoi
- Indian Running Spinach
- Slippery Vegetable
- Vine Spinach
- Poi Sag (Nepali)
- Luo kui (Pinyin)
- Pui-sak (India)
- Espinaca de Nueva Zelandia (Puerto Rico)
- Acelga Trepadora (Puerto Rico)
- Bau lông toi (Vietnam)
- Mât son (Vietnam)
- Phâk muök (Vietnam)
- Remayong (Singapore)
- Gendola (Singapore)
- Surinam Spinach
- Chinese Spinach
- Vietnamese Spinach
- Red Vine Spinach
- Climbing Spinach
- Buffalo Spinach
- Broad Bologi
- Poi Ni Bhaji
- Basale Soppu. Vine Spinach
- Valchi Haji
- Vauchi Bhaji
- Vallicheera
- Mayalu
- Vel Niviti
- Bachhali Basale
- Kubay
- Alugbati
- Pag Pang
- Mong Toi
- Shu Chieh
- Lo kai
- Tsurumurasaki
- Abokpaba or Libokpabli (Gourmantché)
- Tchoosikpékéfa (Waama)
- Forukpètè (Anii)
- Yooda (Boko)
- Yoroukpé (Bariba)
- Djomankugbédé (Ouémè)
- Obaléran (Holly)
- Tokpodéyovoton (Fon)
- Yovogbomanhuégbé (Cotafon)
- Yovoglassi (Aïzo)
- Brède de Malabar
- Epinard (French)
Geographical Habitats
- Bangladesh
- Borneo
- Cambodia
- India
- Java
- Lesser Sunda Islands
- Maluku
- Sulawesi
- Sumatra - Indonesia
- Laos
- Malaysia
- Myanmar
- New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Sri Lanka
- Thailand
- Vietnam
Natural Habitats
- Moist places & hedges
- thickets
- forest edge
- cultivated land margins
- riverside.
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Herbaceous annual or biannual stem-twiner or creeping herbaceous glabrous rhizomatous succulent vine to 10m with green or purplish stems. Fleshy leaves to 150mm x 140mm tinted purple. Axillary solitary spikes to 250mm long of white, pink or purple flowers 5mm long with bracts, corolla to 4.1mm in axillary spikes to 250mm long, corolla lobes to 2.2mm long, calyx lobes to 2mm long, calyx envelops flowers. Fruit a shiny purple fleshy utricle to 10mm diameter red, purple, white or black.
Rampant
Leaves, fruits & stem tips cultivated as a vegetable. Roots & leaves have medicinal uses, dye, edible herb, magic, aphrodisiac
Further References
- Bailey 1976
- Huxley 1992
- Rubatzky 1997
- Smith 1998
- Manandhar 2002
- FOC
- FI
- The Plant List 2
- VOPR
- F Indochine
- FOTA
- NAF
- GBS
- Kew
- Tanziman Ara
- Traditional Vegetables in Benin
- Academia
- FTEA