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Lasia spinosa
Common in moist, shaded areas along rivers in evergreen forest, widespread throughout the country. The plants are normally collected from natural habitat, it is occasionally grown for family consumption. The young leaves are edible, but must be cooked or fermented to neutralize the hydrocyanic acid. They are eaten with, nam phrik plaa raa (chilli sauce with fermented fish), cooked in hot and sour soup or simply fried. Both the rhizomes and leave are expectorants. The latter also help ease stomachaches. The roots are boiled and the water used to bath newborn babies. Caution: This plant should not be eaten raw due to highly toxic prussic acid which is hydrolyzed to form the fatal hydrocyanic acid.
Common in moist, shaded areas along rivers in evergreen forest, widespread throughout the country. The plants are normally collected from natural habitat, it is occasionally grown for family consumption. Caution: This plant should not be eaten raw due to highly toxic prussic acid which is hydrolyzed to form the fatal hydrocyanic acid.
A follow up spotting of this plant - http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/103... I obtained the ident for this plant by contacting http://araceum.abrimaal.pro-e.pl/
Spotted on Apr 4, 2012
Submitted on Apr 4, 2012
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