Nutritional Freshwater Life
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Oxalis corniculata (L.)
Order: Oxalidales
Family: Oxalidaceae
Common name: Creeping wood sorrel,
procumbent yellow sorrel, sleeping
beauty.
Distribution: Cosmopolitan; Asia: Afghanistan, Bhutan, Cambodia, China,
Taiwan, India.
Habitat: Wetlands, cultivated beds.
Description: It is a somewhat delicateappearing, low-growing, herbaceous
plant with a narrow, creeping stem that
readily roots at the nodes. Trifoliate
leaves are subdivided into three rounded
leaflets and resemble a cloverin shape.
Some varieties have green leaves, while
others have purple. Leaves have inconspicuous stipules at the base of each
petiole. Flowers are hermaphrodite. The
whole plant of this species is edible.
Nutritional Facts
Proximate Composition of Shoot (% DM)
Fat
CHO a
Protein
2.0
11.8
9.2
a Carbohydrate.
Minerals (% or mg/100 g DM)
P
(%)
N2
(%)
K
(%)
Na
(%)
Fe
(%)
Mg
(mg)
Cu
(mg)
Zn
(mg)
0.92
1.47 0.30 0.02 0.90 1.85
0.15 1.13
Source: Data from Jain et al. (2011).
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Oxalis corniculata (L.)
Order: Oxalidales
Family: Oxalidaceae
Common name: Creeping wood sorrel,
procumbent yellow sorrel, sleeping
beauty.
Distribution: Cosmopolitan; Asia: Afghanistan, Bhutan, Cambodia, China,
Taiwan, India.
Habitat: Wetlands, cultivated beds.
Description: It is a somewhat delicateappearing, low-growing, herbaceous
plant with a narrow, creeping stem that
readily roots at the nodes. Trifoliate
leaves are subdivided into three rounded
leaflets and resemble a cloverin shape.
Some varieties have green leaves, while
others have purple. Leaves have inconspicuous stipules at the base of each
petiole. Flowers are hermaphrodite. The
whole plant of this species is edible.
Nutritional Facts
Proximate Composition of Shoot (% DM)
Fat
CHO a
Protein
2.0
11.8
9.2
a Carbohydrate.
Minerals (% or mg/100 g DM)
P
(%)
N2
(%)
K
(%)
Na
(%)
Fe
(%)
Mg
(mg)
Cu
(mg)
Zn
(mg)
0.92
1.47 0.30 0.02 0.90 1.85
0.15 1.13
Source: Data from Jain et al. (2011).