Bidens Pilosa South Africa

Bidens pilosa is considered to be useful in clearing superficial heat dispersing stagnation invigorating the blood removing damp wind clearing damp heat from the lower triple burner and purging elemental fire from the body.

Bidens pilosa south africa. Bidens pilosa is a widespread weed of tropical subtropical and warm temperate regions of the world. Wild flowers of southeast botswana struik nature cape town south africa page 132. There can be few of us who have not spent ages picking them off our clothes after walking through the veld to catch horses in the early winter. Bidens pilosa is native to south america the caribbean africa and the philippines.

It is recorded as a weed in cultivated. Bidens pilosa is an annual species of herbaceous flowering plant in the daisy family asteraceae its many common names include black jack beggarticks farmer s friends and spanish needle but most commonly referred to as cobblers pegs it is native to the americas but is widely distributed as an introduced species in other regions worldwide including eurasia africa australia south america. Bidens pilosa is an annual plant producing an erect much branched stem up to 100cm tall though the plant can often flower seed and then die when much smaller. Black jack vegetable is known botanically as bidens pilosaand in south africa local names include muxiji and gewone knapseherel.

There are 60 native species of bidens in hawai i and 19 of those are endemic. Other sources of information about bidens pilosa. Like many indigenous african vegetables black jack has an impressive nutritional profile that comes with a very wide variety of benefits. The common blackjack bidens pilosa is well known to horse owners in south africa.

Is an edible herb and has been traditionally used for a wide range of ailments in many countries. The plant is gathered from the wild for local use as a food and medicine. Bidens pilosa flora of caprivi. Bidens pilosa is eaten in africa as a vegetable.

Blackjack gewone knapsekêrel umhlabangubo uqadolo mushiji mokolonyane and muchize origin and distribution blackjack originated from south america and is common in all tropical and subtropical areas of the world.