Salad Plant With Acidic Leaves

• any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis

• any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine

• East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber

• large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces

• a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color

• of a light brownish color

• long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened

• plants having long green or reddish acidic leafstalks growing in basal clumps; stems (and only the stems) are edible when cooked; leaves are poisonous

• the dried root of the chicory plant: used as a coffee substitute

• perennial Old World herb having rayed flower heads with blue florets cultivated for its root and its heads of crisp edible leaves used in salads

• root of the chicory plant roasted and ground to substitute for or adulterate coffee

• crisp spiky leaves with somewhat bitter taste