Gunnera manicata, known as Brazilian giant-rhubarb, giant rhubarb, or dinosaur food is a species of flowering plant in the family Gunneraceae from the coastal Serra do Mar Mountains of Santa Catarina, Parana and Rio Grande do Sul States, Brazil. In cultivation, the name G. manicata has regularly been wrongly applied to the hybrid with G. tinctoria, G. × cryptica.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Giant rhubarb being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Gunnera tinctoria
- Gunnera mexicana
- Gunnera insignis
- Gunnera petaloidea
- Gunnera talamancana
- Rheum palmatum
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Gunnerales
- Family
- Gunneraceae
- Genus
- Gunnera
- Species
- Gunnera manicata
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