name: Swamp Cabbage

flavor_db_name_variants: swamp cabbage

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Swamp cabbage

id: 91

name_scientific: Ipomoea aquatica

description: Ipomoea aquatica is a semiaquatic, tropical plant grown as a vegetable for its tender shoots and leaves. It is found throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the world, although it is not known where it originated. This plant is known in English as water spinach, river spinach, water morning glory, water convolvulus, or by the more ambiguous names Chinese spinach, Chinese convolvulus, swamp cabbage or kangkong in Southeast Asia. Occasionally, it has also been mistakenly called "kale" in English, although kale is a strain of mustard belonging to the species Brassica oleracea and is completely unrelated to water spinach, which is a species of morning glory. It is known as phak bung in Thai, rau mu?ng in Vietnamese, trokuon in Khmer, kalmi shak in Bengali, kangkung in Malay and Indonesian and hayoyo in Ghana.

itis_id: 30759

wikipedia_id: Ipomoea_aquatica

picture_file_name: 91.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 907626

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:37:36.000Z

legacy_id: 98

food_group: Vegetables

food_subgroup: Leaf vegetables

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:19.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:04:16.000Z

creator_id: null

updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 89636

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00091