Dendranthema indicum (PROSEA)

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Dendranthema indicum (L.) Des Moul.

Protologue: Actes Soc. Linn. Bord. 20: 561 (1860).

Synonyms

  • Chrysanthemum indicum L. (1753).

Vernacular names

  • False chamomile, Indian chrysanthemum, winter aster (En).
  • Chrysanthème des Indes (Fr)
  • Indonesia: sruni alas (Javanese)
  • Philippines: mansanilla, dolontas (Tagalog)
  • Thailand: benchamaat suan (central)
  • Vietnam: kim cúc, cúc hoa vàng.

Distribution

D. indicum grows wild in Japan and China, Taiwan, Java, and the Philippines. It is cultivated in many countries all over the world as an ornamental. In India, Vietnam, China and Japan it is cultivated as a medicinal, and has become naturalized on a small scale.

Uses

In Java, a water extract of the flower heads of the wild type is used on the body against fever, and a decoction is used for soothing ophthalmia. A decoction of the leaves, also of cultivated plants, is drunk as a sudorific. In Japan, the young flower heads, preserved in vinegar, are eaten.

Observations

  • An erect or ascending, perennial, aromatic, pubescent herb, 30-60 cm tall, with stolons and rhizomes.
  • Leaves ovate to oblong-ovate in outline, 3-5 cm × 2.5-4 cm, pinnately lobed with 2-3 lobes on each side, abruptly narrowed at the base; heads in a corymbose panicle, peduncle short, involucral bracts oblong or elliptical, equalling the achenes in size, heads 1.5-2.5 cm in diameter.
  • Corolla of ligulate flower 11-13 mm long.

Several varieties are recognized within D. indicum, one of which is D. indicum var. edule (Kitam.) Kitam., which is cultivated as a vegetable in China. The wild type grows on sunny, fertile and humid locations, up to 1000 m altitude.

Selected sources

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Authors

  • G.H. Schmelzer
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