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Is watercress a wild vegetable? Alias is bamboo leaf lettuce?

Andrographis paniculata (scientific name: Andrographis paniculata (Burm. f.) Nees), also known as spring lotus and autumn willows, Ichimoku, Eleutherococcus, bitter gall grass, golden herb, gold ear hooks, Indian grass, bitter grass and so on. Annual herb, 4~8 centimeters long, 1~2.5 centimeters wide. Medicinal plant, with heat detoxification, anti-inflammatory, swelling and pain relief.

Ipomoea aquatica (Latin name: Ipomoea aquatica?Forsk), is a plant in the photocalyx group of the genus Senna. In Fujian, Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, called hollow cabbage, Fujian, called Tongcaihuai, Huahuai, Jiangsu, Sichuan, called Tengtengcai, Guangdong, called Tongcai.

This species is native to China and is now widely cultivated as a vegetable, or sometimes escapes into the wild. China's central and southern provinces are commonly cultivated, less in the north, suitable for growing in a warm and humid climate, fertile and wet soil places, not cold, frost stems and leaves withered. Distribution throughout tropical Asia, Africa and Oceania. In addition to vegetables for food, but also for medicinal purposes, internal solution to dietary poisoning, external treatment of fractures, ascites and anonymous swelling. Water spinach is also a better feed.