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Fireweed / Borbotac / Apok-apok

Crassocephalum crepidioides

Photo by KdonGalay
Published on Project Noah
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17.0845, 120.901

Field Notes

Description:

Used to be considered as weeds on farmlands and open fields
now turns to be edible and with promising medicinal properties

Habitat:

distributed all over the Philippine archipelago

Notes:

http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1472-6882-12-78.pdf

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Plants of the Philippines
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PublishedOctober 27, 2013

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