Kh'merican Backyard Gardening. Vegetables and Herbs

ត្រចៀកក្រាញ់ (Centella Asiatica), also known as Asiatica Pennywort, Gotu Kola.  It is used in folk medicine for different purposes. My great-grandparents is known to have used its extract to keep fever at bay.   A perennial native to Cambodia. Taste slightly bitter, salty like celery,  and scented like carrot. Centella Asiatica is a moisture loving culinary and medicinal plant. Thrives on edge of streams and river banks.  This variety of Pennywort is also eaten raw or cooked.  It can be used as you please. In  a veggie assortment platter as a table condiments,  in Salad, Soups, or a quick blanched in Strir Fry.  Its extract is also use in beverage drinks.  C. Asiatica chemistry: Centella contains pentacyclic triterpenoids, including asiaticoside, brahmoside, asiatic acid, and brahmic acid (madecassic acid). Other constituents include centellose, centelloside, and madecassoside.

  ពុត​លំញង/ Pea  Eggplant, a native to Cambodia. It was naturalized in the South Pacific, Asia, and Australia and was first introduced to the United States as a potential food crop in 1899 and was naturalized in Florida by 1930. Today Cluster eggplant can be found at Asian market, seasonally in some regions across the USA.  Different variety of Pea eggplant.  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304423814004774