Aponogeton distachyos
Aponogeton distachyos L. f.
| Ordre | Alismatales |
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| Famille | Aponogetonaceae |
| Genre | Aponogeton |
2n =
Origine : Afrique du Sud
sauvage et cultivé
| Français | |
|---|---|
| Anglais |
épis et rhizomes comestibles
Description
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milieu
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milieu
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détails des fleurs
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fleurs
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- herbe aquatique vivace, à souche tubéreuse, à hampes longues, faibles, cylindriques, redressées au sommet
- feuilles flottantes, grandes, oblongues, plurinervées, glabres et lisses en dessus, rudes en dessous, à long pétiole engainant
- fleurs purpurines, hermaphrodites ou polygames, odorantes, sessiles, distiques, serrées en épis terminaux bifurqués
- périanthe remplacé par des bractées colorées et persistantes
- 6-18 étamines hypogynes libres, anthère à 2 loges
- 1 style, à stigmate oblique
- ovaire libre
- fruit formé de 2-6 carpelles soudés à la base, s'ouvrant en dedans, contenant chacun 1 à 4 graines. (Coste).
Noms populaires
| français | |
| anglais | Cape pond weed, water hawthorn |
| afrikaans | waterblommetjie, vleikos |
Classification
Aponogeton distachyos L. f. (1782) ("distachyon").
Cultivars
Histoire
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Paxton's Flower Garden, 1853, 2, pl. 43.
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Золотницкий / Zolotnicky, 1882.
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Usages
Aponogeton distachyum Thunb. CAPE ASPARAGUS. CAPE POND-WEED. South Africa. This plant has become naturalized in a stream near Montpelier, France. Its flowering spikes, known as water untjie, are in South Africa in high repute as a pickle [1] and also afford a spinach [2]. In Kaffraria, the roasted roots are reckoned a great delicacy [3].
In South Africa, the plants are cultivated in large quantities in special artificial ponds, multiplied by seeds and rhizomes. Young inflorescences, sometimes also tubers, leaves, and young sprouts of cultivated (and wild) plants are used as vegetables, inflorescences also preserved or sold on the markets. The tubers of several other species are also eaten by man and livestock. Wild distribution: South Africa, naturalized in Chile, Great Britain, France, Australia (Victoria).
Références
- Arkcoll, D. (1997): Some useful wild plants from Southern Africa (pp 171-175) - In: B. C. Imrie, R. A. Bray, I. M. Wood & R. J. Fletcher (eds.) - New Crops, New Products. Proc. 1st Austr. New Crops Conf. Gatton Coll. 8-11 July 1996. Vol. 1. Principles and case studies Rural Industr. Res. Devel. Corp. Barton.
- Bruggen, H. W. E. van (1985) - Monograph of the genus Aponogeton (Aponogetonaceae). - Bibliotheca Botanica 33 (137): 1-76.
- Bruggen, H. W. E. van (1990) - Die Gattung Aponogeton (Aponogetonaceae). - Aqua-Planta Sdh. (2): 3-84.
- Bruggen, H. W. E. van (1998): Aponogetonaceae (pp 21-25) - In: K. Kubitzki (ed.) - The families and genera of vascular plants. Vol. 4 Flowering plants. Monocotyledons, Alismatanae and Commelinanae (except Gramineae) Springer Berlin: 511 p.
- San Martin, C., C. Ramirez & J. Barrera. (1994) - Chemical composition and caloric content of Aponogeton distachyon L. f. in Valdivia, Chile. - Phyton (Buenos Aires) 56 (0): 133-142.