M.M.P.N.D. - Sorting Houttuynia names

MULTILINGUAL MULTISCRIPT PLANT NAME DATABASE

Sorting Houttuynia names

Species on this page ( A = names approved by most authorities, s = approved as synonyms) :

Houttuynia cordata Thunb. A
Houttuynia cordata Thunb. (Chinensis Group)
Houttuynia cordata Thunb. (Japonica Group)
Houttuynia cordata Thunb. (Variegata Group)

Houttuynia cordata Thunb.

SYNONYM(S) : Gymnotheca chinensis Decne., Polypara cochinchinensis Lour.

CHINESE : Ji cai (Taiwanese tsi ts'ai), Yu xing cao (medicinal name).

DANISH : Houttuynia.

DUTCH : Houttuynia.

ENGLISH : Chinese lizard tail, Fish mint, Fish plant, Fishwort, Heartleaf , Himalayan spinach, Lizard's tail, Edible houttuynia, Heartleaf houttuynia, Vietnamese fish plant, White chaplu, Wild houttuynia.

FRENCH : Hottonie, Houttuynie.

GERMAN: Buntblatt, Chinesischer Eidechsenschwanz.

JAPANESE : Dokudami.

KOREAN : 약모밀 .

LAOTIAN : Phak khao thong.

NEPALESE : Gandhe, Gane.

RUSSIAN : Xауттюйния сердцевидная, Хоуттуиния.

SLOVENIAN : Hutujnija.

SWEDISH : Hoyttynia.

THAI : ผักก้านตอง Phak kan tong, ผักคาวทอง Phak khao tong, ผักคาวตอง Phak khao tong (Northern Thailand), ผักเข้าตอง Phak khao tong, พลูแก Phlu kae (Central Thailand).

VIETNAMESE : Diếp cá, Giấp cá, Ngư tinh thảo, Rau dap ca, Vap ca.

Photograph of leaves on Gernot Katzer's site.

Houttuynia cordata Thunb. 'Plena'

FRENCH : Houttuynie à fleurs doubles.

Houttuynia cordata Thunb. (Chinensis Group)

ENGLISH : Coriander-scented houttuynia, Chinese houttuynia, Vietnamese houttuynia, Chinese lizard tail.

Houttuynia cordata Thunb. (Japonica Group)

ENGLISH : Citrus-scented houttuynia, Japanese houttuynia.

Houttuynia cordata Thunb. (Variegata Group)

SYNONYM(S) : Houttuynia cordata Thunb. 'Chameleon', Houttuynia cordata Thunb. 'Variegata'

DANISH : Kamæleonblad.

DUTCH : Bonte houttuynia.

ENGLISH : Chameleon plant, Variegated houttuynia.

FRENCH : Houttuynia cordata panaché, Houttuynie caméléon, Houttuynie panachée.

GERMAN: Bunter Houttuynia, Chamäleonpflanze.

SWEDISH : Kameleontblad.

Photograph of leaves on Gernot Katzer's site.

HOW TO CITE THIS PAGE / COLLECTION OF RECORDS

Porcher Michel H. et al. 1995 - 2020, Sorting Houttuynia Names. Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (M.M.P.N.D) - A Work in Progress. School of Agriculture and Food Systems. Faculty of Land & Food Resources. The University of Melbourne. Australia.
< http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Houttuynia.html > (2005).

REFERENCES
General Bibliography + REFERENCES
Online + REFERENCES
Specific & complementary

Katzer Gernot, Spice Pages, Chameleon Plant Houttuynia cordata Thunb. < http://www-ang.kfunigraz.ac.at/~katzer/engl/generic_frame.html?Hout_cor.html >.

Mabberley D. J. 1997, The Plant-Book : a Portable Dictionary of the Vascular Plants, 2d Edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.

USDA, ARS, 2000, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN). [Online Database] National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Available: www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxdump.pl?houttuynia (20 January 2000).

Vijverplanten, 1999 - 2005, Vijverplanten Zone A. < http://members.lycos.nl/vijverplanten/html/zone_A.htm >. (Dutch, English, French, German).

Wang Zongxun et al. 1996, A New Latin, Chinese, English Botanical Nomenclature. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany. Aviation Industry Publisher, Beijing.

Wiersema J. H. & León B. 1999, World Economic Plants : a Standard Reference. CRC Press LLC.

Contributors to this page (Personal communication) : Orarat Mongkolporn, Angela Drenovac.

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