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The leaf can reach up to 4.7 m (15 ft) tall. [4] The trunklike petiole bearing the leaf can be "as thick as a person's thigh". [5] Food in the form of sugars from the leaf accumulate (as starch) in an underground tuber or corm. After a period of about a year, the old leaf dies, and a new one grows in its place from the tuber. [5]
ATCC 25462, CBS 695.69, CGMCC 4.1381, CGMCC AS 4.1381, DSM 40383, ICMP 12541, IFO 13050, ISP 5383, KACC 20241, KCC S-0484, Martin 9820, NBRC 13050, NRRL B-12321, NRRL-ISP 5383, RIA 1242, VKM Ac-1734 Synonyms "Actinomyces ipomoea" Person and Martin 1940
Restoration of Yi qi (4 letters) Ia io Thomas, 1902 – Family Vespertilionidae. The great evening bat is the largest vespertilionid bat, reaching a wingspan of just over half a metre. It occurs in tropical Asia where it lives in limestone caves.
A root tuber, tuberous root or storage root is a modified lateral root, enlarged to function as a storage organ. The enlarged area of the tuber can be produced at the end or middle of a root or involve the entire root. It is thus different in origin, but similar in function and appearance, to a stem tuber.
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Pleurotus tuber-regium, the king tuber mushroom, is an edible gilled fungus native to the tropics, including Africa, Asia, and Australasia. [1] It has been shown to be a distinct species incapable of cross-breeding and phylogenetically removed from other species of Pleurotus .
L. siceraria or bottle gourd, are native to the Americas, being found in Peruvian archaeological sites dating from 13,000 to 11,000 BC and Thailand sites from 11,000 to 6,000 BC. [4] A study of bottle gourd DNA published in 2005 suggests that there are two distinct subspecies of bottle gourds, domesticated independently in Africa and Asia, the ...
Grown primarily by Quechua and Aymara farmers, oca has been a staple of rural Andean diets for centuries. [4] Of all Andean root and tuber crops, oca is currently second only to potato in area planted within the Central Andean region. [3] Oca is essential to local food security because of its role in crop rotations and its high nutritional content.