Panax fruticosum.

Botanical name: 

Panax fruticosum Linn. Araliaceae. Panax.

Tropical Asia, Malay and Polynesia. This aromatic plant is much cultivated in the Island of Ternate by the natives for food and for medicine. The boiled leaves are eaten as greens.


Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World, 1919, was edited by U. P. Hedrick.