Łódź, Botanical Garden

It is native to Europe and Asia. Edible plant - Stem and young shoots - raw or cooked; the leaf stems are tied in bundles and dried in the sun until they turn yellow, than a sweet substance resembling sugar forms on the dried stems and is considered to be a great delicacy; roots cooked. Herbal plant - the roots and the leaves are aphrodisiac, digestive, mildly expectorant and sedative.