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General Information

Ludwigia hyssopifolia is an annual plant, often becoming woody at the base, growing from 5 - 300cm tall[].
The plant is sometimes harvested from the wild for local use as a dye and medicine.

Known Hazards

None known

Botanical References

Range

Tropical Africa; E. Asia - southern China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, throughout southeast Asia to New Guinea and Australia.

Habitat

A very common weed of pools, along drains, shallow ditches, water and river edges, paddies and humid, fallow garden land, waste land, and in clearings, and as a pioneer on old volcanic mudstreams, from the plains up to elevations of 1,000 metres[].

Properties

Weed Potential	Yes
Medicinal Rating
Other Uses Rating
Habit	Annual
Height	1.50 m
Pollinators	Self
Self-fertile	Yes
Cultivation Status	Wild

Cultivation Details

Plants are found in the wild both on clay and humid white sands[].
The original range of this species is hard to define, but probably somewhere in southeast Asia. It spreads readily as a weed[].

Edible Uses

None known

Medicinal

The plant is used in the treatment of diarrhoea, dysentery, enteritis and sprue[].
A poultice of the plant is used to treat pimples, boils and other infections[, ].

The leaves are used in a febrifuge decoction[].

A cold infusion of the roots is used to treat syphilis[, ].

Other Uses

A black dye is made from the whole plant[].

Propagation

Seed -

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