Oyster plant is a
common name used for various flowering plants, including:
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Acanthus mollis
''Acanthus mollis'', commonly known as bear's breeches, sea dock, bear's foot plant, sea holly, gator plant or oyster plant, is a species of plant in the family Acanthaceae and is native to the Mediterranean region. It is a leafy, clump-forming ...
'', (also called bear's breeches), native to the Mediterranean
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Mertensia maritima
''Mertensia maritima'' is a species of flowering plant in the borage family, and is known by the common names oyster leaf in North America, oyster plant in the British Isles, and sea bluebells.
It is restricted to gravelly sea shores, usually w ...
'' (also called oysterleaf), native to Europe and North America with leaves said to taste like oysters
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Scorzonera hispanica'' (also called black salsify), cultivated for its dark-skinned edible root
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Tragopogon porrifolius
''Tragopogon porrifolius'' is a plant cultivated for its ornamental flower and edible root. It also grows wild in many places and is one of the most widely known species of the salsify genus, '' Tragopogon''. It is commonly known as purple or ...
'' (also called purple salsify), cultivated for its light-skinned edible root
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Tradescantia spathacea
''Tradescantia spathacea'', the oyster plant, boatlily or Moses-in-the-cradle, is a herb in the Commelinaceae family first described in 1788. It is native to Belize, Guatemala, and southern Mexico (Chiapas, Tabasco, and the Yucatán Peninsula) b ...
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synonyms ''Tradescantia discolor'', ''Rhoeo spathacea'', ''Rhoeo discolor''); (also called Oyster Herb, Daun Kepah, Nanas Kerang, Boatlily (Cây Lẻ Bạn, Lảo Bạn, Sò Huyết), Moses in a basket, Cradle Lily, Moses in His Cradle, Moses on a Raft, Moses in the Bulrushes, Men in a Boat, Moses-in-Cradle, (Chinese) 蚌花)
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