Culantro: A Much Utilized Little Understood Herb
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Culantro: A Much Utilized Little Understood HerbPage 1506Culantro: A Much Utilized Little Understood HerbChristopher RamcharanCulantro (Eryngium foetidum L. Apiaceae) is a biennial herb indigenous to continental Tropical Americaand the West Indies. Although widely used in dishes throughout the Caribbean Latin America and the FarEast culantro is relatively unknown in the United States and many other parts of the world and is often mistaken and misnamed for its close relative cilantro or coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.). Some of its commonnames descriptive of the plant include: spiny or serrated coriander shado beni and bhandhania (Trinidad andTobago) chadron benee (Dominica) coulante (Haiti) recao (Puerto Rico) and fit weed (Guyana).Culantro grows naturally in shaded moist heavy soils near cultivated areas. Under cultivation the plantthrives best under well irrigated shaded conditions. Like its close relative cilantro culantro tends to bolt andflower profusely under hot highlight long days of summer months. Recent research at UVIAES has demonstrated that it can be kept in a vegetative mode through summer when treated with GA3sprays.The plant is reportedly rich in calcium iron carotene and riboflavin and its harvested leaves are widelyused as a food flavoring and seasoning herb for meat and many other foods. Its medicinal value include itsuse as a tea for flu diabetes constipation and fevers. One of its most popular use is in chutneys as an appetitestimulant. The name fitweed is derived from its supposedly anticonvulsant property. The presence of increasingly large West Indian Latin American and Asian immigrant communities in metropolises of the USCanada and the UK. creates a large market for culantro and large quantities are exported from Puerto Ricoand Trinidad to these areas.Culantro is increasingly becoming a crop of international trade mainly to meet the demands of ethnicpopulations in the developed countries of the West. Large immigrant communities ...
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