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Food - The sweet leaves are used as sugar substitute.
Brazil to Paraguay
Thrives in warm, moist, and sunny conditions. Now cultivated in many regions around the world.
It is herbaceous perennial with an upright bushy growth form.
Stem is long, flattened, and twisted with small grey-green rounded leaves, can reach up to 60-100 cm tall.
Leaves are small, grey-green, rounded leaves with entire margins.
Flowers are white, small, and not very showy.
Fruit is dry, single-seeded.
Flowering: January - March.