Centella asiatica
Common name
gotu kola
Family
Apiaceae
Flora category
Vascular – Exotic
Structural class
Herbs - Dicotyledons other than Composites
Conservation status
Not applicable
Habitat
Found 5 December 2006 in Auckland, Mt Albert, as a lawn verge and gutter weed. Eradication attempted.
Flowering
November - March
Flower colours
Green, Yellow
Fruiting
January - May
Year naturalised
2006
Origin
Asia
Etymology
centella: Little spike
Reason For Introduction
Salad vegetable, medicinal plant (Asian Community)
Life Cycle Comments
Long-lived perennial, creeping herb
Reproduction
By asexual and sexual means - plants extensively stoloniferous
Seed
Long-lived
Dispersal
Water and in soil
Tolerances
Cold sensitive