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The giant rhubarb, or Campos des Loges (Gunnera manicata), native to the Serra do Mar mountains of southeastern Brazil, is perhaps the largest species, with reniform or sub-reniform leaves typically 1.5 to 2.0 meters (4 ft 11 in to 6 ft 7 in) long, not including the thick, succulent petiole which may be up to 2.5 meters (8 feet 2 inches) in length.
Gunnera tinctoria, known as giant rhubarb, [2] Chilean rhubarb, or nalca, is a flowering plant species native to southern Chile and neighboring zones in Argentina. It is unrelated to rhubarb , as the two plants belong to different orders , but looks similar from a distance and has similar culinary uses.
Gunnera manicata is a large, clump-forming herbaceous perennial growing to 2.5 m (8 ft) tall by 4 m (13 ft) or more. The leaves of G. manicata grow to an impressive size. . Leaves with diameters well in excess of 120 cm (4 ft) are commonplace, with a spread of 3 m × 3 m (10 ft × 10 ft) on a mature plant.The largest on record had leaves up to eleven feet (3.3 meters) in width.
Rheum nobile, the Sikkim rhubarb [1] or noble rhubarb (पदमचाल), is a giant herbaceous plant native to the Himalaya, from northeastern Afghanistan, east through northern Pakistan and India (in Sikkim), Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet to Myanmar, occurring in the alpine zone at 4000–4800 m altitude.
Rhubarb is an herbaceous perennial plant in the genus Rheum cultivated as a vegetable. Rhubarb may also be used as the English name for the genus Rheum (plant) and some of its species. Giant rhubarb may refer to Gunnera manicata , an unrelated plant.
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Rhubarb is the fleshy, edible stalks of species and hybrids (culinary rhubarb) of Rheum in the family Polygonaceae, which are cooked and used for food. [2] The plant is a herbaceous perennial that grows from short, thick rhizomes .
Rheum is usually derived from the Greek rheon, [6] [7] mentioned by Dioscorides as an alternative name for medicinal rhubarb; the word rheon is itself thought to be derived from the (old) Persian rewend. [7] Dioscorides calls the plant rha, but mentions the Romans call it rha ponticum, and it was also called ria or rheon. [8]