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Pueraria montana var. lobata
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Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Pueraria
Species:
P. montana
Varietas:
P. m. var. lobata
Trinomial name
Pueraria montana var. lobata
(Willd.) Maesen & S. M. Almeida ex Sanjappa & Predeep
Synonyms

Pueraria montana var. lobata, the East Asian arrowroot, or kudzu vine, is a perennial plant in the family Fabaceae.

Names

It is called () in Chinese, kuzu () in Japanese, and chik () or gal (갈; 葛) in Korean.

Distribution

The plant is native to East Asia (China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea), the Russian Far East, Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam), and the Pacific (New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu).

Use

The starch powder made from the East Asian arrowroot is called kudzu powder. Kudzu powder is used to make arrowroot tea in traditional medicines of China, Japan and Korea (in Korea the root unprepared is also used).

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