蕹菜为旋花科甘薯属以嫩茎叶为产品的一年生或多年生草本植物,别名竹叶菜、空心菜、藤菜、藤藤菜等。原产中国南方及亚洲的东部和南部地区,广泛分布于亚洲等热带地区。蕹菜在中国自古就有栽培,关于蕹菜的记载不迟于公元3世纪的西晋时期,西晋张华(公元232～300年)编写的《博物 Ipomoea is a Convolvulaceae genus of young stems and leaves as the product of annual or perennial herbs, alias bamboo leaves, spinach, rattan, rattan vine and so on. Native to southern China and eastern and southern Asia, widely distributed in tropical Asia. Brasenia has been cultivated in China since ancient times, and the records of Brasenia do not fall behind the Western Jin Dynasty of the 3rd century AD, the "Museum of Zhang Hua (232-300 AD)