Jewels of Opar, flameflower (Talinum paniculatum, family Portulacaceae) · sweetheart (Talinum fruticosum, family Portulacaceae) · ginseng: any of the various plants of the genus Panax (family Araliaceae)
köken: From Sanskrit โสม (soma, “soma plant; a kind of boiled vine from Vedic India, made from the plant soma, drunk as medicine and offered to gods; also associated with the moon after the Vedic period”). Cognate with Old Khmer soma°; Modern Khmer សោម (saom).
aile: โสมแดง, โสมวาร, โสมส่องแสง
Etimoloji
From Malay kolesom, from Hokkien 高麗參／高丽参 (ko-lê-som, “Korean ginseng”). Doublet of koliseng.