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Native regions and the swampy habitats the plant occupies in temperate and tropical areas.
Centella asiatica is native to tropical regions of Africa, Asia, Australia and islands in the western Pacific Ocean. These four native ranges define the plant's centre of distribution.
Beyond its native range, Centella grows in temperate and tropical swampy areas in many regions of the world. The habitat constant is moisture: swampy ground in both temperate and tropical zones.
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In its regions of distribution the plant is consumed as a culinary vegetable. This use is documented where the plant occurs, not as a commercial crop claim.
Where it is grown as a crop, Centella asiatica matures in three months and the whole plant including the roots is harvested manually. The crop duration is the same figure recorded in the plant-facts table.
The native-region list and the swampy-habitat note together answer where the plant comes from and where it persists outside cultivation.
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