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Eleocharis dulcis

Perennial

HomePerennialEleocharis dulcis

Marshy land and shallow water. The edges of seasonal swamps in Australia.

Family: Cyperaceae
Height: 1 m / 4 ft
Sun
Light, Medium and Heavy Soil
Wet or water

Plant Rating

Edible Uses: 4 of 5
Medicinal Uses: 1 of 5
Other Uses: 2 of 5

Native Habitat

Chinese Water Chestnut Eleocharis dulcis native habitat is Marshy land and shallow water. The edges of seasonal swamps in Australia.

Edible Uses

Corm - raw or cooked. A delicious taste, it is sweet and crisp when fully ripe and is starchy before that. Widely used in Chinese cooking, especially in chop suey. A flour or starch can be made from the dried and ground up corm and this is used to thicken sauces and to give a crisp coating to various deep-fried foods. The root is about 4cm in diameter, it contains about 36% starch. A nutritional analysis is available. The plant is used for making salt in Zimbabwe. No more details.

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