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Eupatorium (Eupatorium fortunei) plant

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Culinary Herbs & Leaves

Eupatorium

Eupatorium fortunei

Eupatorium (mần tưới) is a branching herb of the daisy family, usually half a metre, sometimes a metre, its smooth stems faintly purple and lined lengthwise. The narrow paired leaves, seven to eleven centimetres long, are coarsely and shallowly toothed and washed with the same purple; purplish flower heads open at the branch tips in April and May in the north. It grows wild and is widely planted in Vietnam, often as a clipped hedge along paths and garden edges, struck from cuttings. The whole plant is aromatic: young shoot tips are eaten raw as a herb or chopped into sausages; stems and leaves are dried in the shade.

Origin:
Vietnam

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