Caralluma fimbriata is a popular edible cactus from India. It grows abundantly throughout India’s interior, even along the roadsides. It’s part of the diet of several native Indian populations. It has been used for thousands of years in Indian culture for helping suppress appetite during long hunts and times of famine. It typically blooms in late summer. Its blossoms are usually brown, purple, tan, yellow, and red. For centuries, people in rural areas of India have eaten Caralluma fimbriata, which grows wild over various parts of the country. Caralluma fimbriata is cooked as a vegetable, used in preserves like chutneys and pickles, or eaten raw.
Caralluma is a succulent, an edible cactus from India that has traditionally been eaten by tribesmen to stave off hunger during long hunts and enhance endurance. Caralluma supplements are now being marketed as appetite suppressants. Caralluma is indicated to be effective for weight loss and obesity, quenching thirst, increasing endurance, etc.