Oca (Oxalis tuberosa)
Oxalis tuberosa
About Oca (Oxalis tuberosa)
Oca (Oxalis tuberosa) (Oxalis tuberosa) is a herb used in the Andean & Incan Medicine and Shipibo & Upper Amazonian Shamanism traditions to help with Nutritional Support, Digestive Issues, Wound Healing, and Anemia, among 3 other conditions it addresses. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, used both internally and topically.
Botanical background
Oxalis tuberosa is a perennial herbaceous plant that overwinters as underground stem tubers. These tubers are known as uqa in Quechua, oca or cubio in Spanish, New Zealand yam and a number of other alternative names. The plant was brought into cultivation in the central and southern Andes for its tubers, which are used as a root vegetable. The plant is not known in the wild, but populations of wild Oxalis species that bear smaller tubers...
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist