Lepidium

Maca, Lepidium meyenii, is an annual plant which produces a radish-like root.

Nena Niessen: Cures from the Kitchen Nena Niessen 2010

In the heights of the mountains, Peruvian tribesmen get energy by sucking on maca Lepidium meyenii plants.

You Being Beautiful Michael F. Roizen 2008

The salt steppes are dominated by Lepidium cartilagineum, Pandera pilosa, Sueda altissima, Frankenia hirsuta, Limonium liliacium and Acanthalimon halophilum.

Central Anatolian steppe 2008

In the heights of the mountains, Peruvian tribesmen get energy by sucking on maca Lepidium meyenii plants.

You Being Beautiful Michael F. Roizen 2008

Also of note are the very rare, minute Lepidium spp. which each cover only a few square centimeters.

Cantebury-Otago tussock grasslands 2007

Threatened plant species currently being protected or monitored include the endemic saltpan cresses (Lepidium kirkii and L. sisymbrioides matau), the upland shrub Hebe cupressoides, the endangered Hector's tree daisy (Olearia hectorii), native Peraxilla mistletoes, and the epiphytic forest shrub Tupeia antarctica.

Cantebury-Otago tussock grasslands 2007

Another herb, from the Peruvian Andes, is known to enhance sexual energy: maca Lepidium peruvianum chacon.

THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003

(Lepidium meyenii), a sweet, tangy delicacy in the highlands; mashua (Tropaeolum tuberosum), a staple that requires little labor; mauka (Mirabilis expansa), a

12: Seeds and germplasm 1996

Chica, an alcoholic beverage made from maize in Peru since pre-Hispanic times, also is produced from potato, oca (Oxalis tuberosa), arracacha (Arracacia xanthorrhiza), maca (Lepidium evenii), and other Incan crops that science has almost totally neglected.

1 Upgrading Traditional Biotechnological Processes 1992

Yam bean (Pachyrrhizus erosus) AppendixesMaca (Lepidium meyenni)

Chapter 23 1987