- Source: Laportea aestuans
Laportea aestuans (Urtica aestuans), the West Indian woodnettle, is an annual herb of the Urticaceae or nettle family.
It is possibly native to tropical Africa, although it now is widespread as an introduced species throughout both the western hemisphere and eastern hemisphere tropics and subtropics, including the USA (California, Florida, Puerto Rico), Central America, the West Indies, India, Sumatra and Java.
Laportea aestuans is a food plant for an edible snail, Archachatina ventricosa, native to parts of coastal West Africa. It is a weedy species in Taiwan. It is a possible host reservoir in Nigeria for African cassava mosaic virus, an important plant pest of a major African food crop, Manihot esculenta or cassava.
References
External links
Laportea aestuans in West African plants – A Photo Guide.
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Daun gatal
- Jelatang
- Laportea aestuans
- Laportea
- Xanthosoma sagittifolium
- Flora of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- List of plants of Burkina Faso
- Childbirth in Trinidad and Tobago
- Tapiche Reserve
- List of plants of Doi Suthep–Pui National Park
- List of endemic species of Taiwan
