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Centella asiatica

Auckland. Dec 2006.<br>Photographer: Peter J de Lange, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.

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Common names

gotu kola, Indian pennywort, Asiatic pennywort, spadeleaf, coinwort

Biostatus

Exotic

Structural class

Herbs - Dicotyledons other than Composites

Flower colours

Green, Yellow

Habitat

Found 5 December 2006 in Auckland, Mt Albert, as a lawn verge and gutter weed. Eradication attempted.

Conservation status

Not applicable

Detailed taxonomy

Genus

Centella

Family

Apiaceae

Authority

Centella asiatica (L.) Urb.

Endemic genus

Endemic family

Ecology

Flowering

November - March

Fruiting

January - May

Year naturalised

2006

Origin

Asia

Reason for introduction

Salad vegetable, medicinal plant (culinary vegetable and is used in traditional medicine).

Tolerances

Cold sensitive

Life cycle and dispersal

Long-lived perennial, creeping herb. Reproduces by asexual and sexual means - plants extensively stoloniferous. Seed us long-lived, dispersed by water and by soil movement.

Other information

Etymology

centella: Little spike

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