List of grass jelly plants

Grass jelly is a gelatinous dessert that is usually made from a plant in the mint family called Platostoma palustre.

It and similar desserts can be made from other grass jelly plants.

[3] Green grass jelly plants include Premna trichostoma and Cyclea barbata, while black (also called janggelan) includes species like P. palustre[3] In Indonesian, grass jelly plants are called tanaman cincau.

[4] In Javanese, these plants are called camcao, juju, or kepleng and in Sundanese they are called camcauh or tahulu.

[5] There are other plants that could possibly be used for making grass jelly but are not currently known to be used as such.

A bowl of grass jelly from a Chinese restaurant in Yuen Long