Description: This is an ornamental plant. According to Manchagauribai some species are edible. For this reason, they are used in the ornamentation of sweets made with yogurt. (*)
Provided by: Jentilal Chagan e Manchagauribai, both India-born Portuguese.
Present Location: Plant nursery belonging to Moscavide and Portela Districts.
Last revision date: March 2016
(I) Numbering in accordance with the archive of trees and plants identified in the Quinta da Vitoria 2012 and 2013.
(II) Mabberley, David J. Mabberley´s Plant-Book: A Portable Dictionary of Plants, their Classifications and Uses. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
(*)Testimonies of residents gathered in a set of recorded conversations in the neighborhood of Quinta da Vitória and later to your demolition, recorded in Lisbon, Loures and London between July 2012 and October 2014