Euryale ferox (binomen a Ricardo Antonio Salisbury anno 1805 statutum) est planta aquatica familiae Nymphaeacearum aevo praehistorico in paludibus Europae et Asiae occidentalis, nostro tempore in Asia orientali et australi endemica. Propter semina edulia (sed aegre recuperabilia) atque sicut planta ornamentalis colitur.
Euryale ferox: tabula e Curtis's Botanical Magazine (1812)
1330 : Hu Si-hui, Propria ad mensam Imperatoris principia (Paul D. Buell, Eugene N. Anderson, edd. et interprr., A Soup for the Qan: Chinese dietary medicine of the Mongol era as seen in Hu Szu-hui's Yin-shan cheng-yao [Londinii: Kegan Paul, 2000] vide indicem p. 677)
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