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Xanthosoma sagittifolium, or tannia, is a tropical flowering plant from the family Araceae. It produces an edible, starchy corm. X. sagittifolium is native to tropical America where it has been first cultivated. Around the 19th century, the plant spread to Southeast Asia and Africa and has been cultivated there ever since. X.
After having been introduced to Hawaii in the 1920s from South America, Xanthosoma has naturalized and has become more common than A. macrorrhizos, and has been given the same name, ʻape. The typical Xanthosoma plant has a growing cycle of 9 to 11 months, during which time it produces a large stem called a corm, this surrounded by smaller ...
Cocoyam is a common name for more than one tropical root crop and vegetable crop belonging to the Arum family (also known as Aroids [1] and by the family name Araceae) and may refer to: Taro (Colocasia esculenta) – old cocoyam; Malanga (Xanthosoma spp.) – new cocoyam
Elephant ear plant with yellow blossom Elephant ear plant with blossom. Colocasia is a genus [3] [4] of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to southeastern Asia and the Indian subcontinent. Some species are widely cultivated and naturalized in other tropical and subtropical regions. [1] [5]
Nuphar sagittaefolia (Walter) Pursh Search in The Plant List Nuphar sagittifolia , common name arrow-leaved water-lily or Cape Fear spatterdock , is a plant species known only from North Carolina , South Carolina , and Virginia .
Plicosepalus sagittifolius is a woody, photosynthesising, parasitic plant species that grows on the branches of mostly Acacia-species, by means of tapping roots.It has glaucus, leathery, entire, 1–6 cm long leaves set oppositely along the stem, with umbels of initially long up-curved pale greenish-yellow buds, that open explosively, the petals usually bright yellow, strongly curling, long ...
Peltandra sagittifolia is a species of plant in the genus Peltandra. It is commonly known as the spoonflower or the white arrow arum, native to the southeastern United States from eastern Louisiana to eastern Virginia. [1] [2] [3]
Philodendron sagittifolium Liebm. – Mexico to Venezuela; Philodendron samayense G.S.Bunting – Venezuela (Bolívar) Philodendron santodominguense G.S.Bunting – N.W. Venezuela; Philodendron saxicola K.Krause – Brazil (Bahia) Philodendron scalarinerve Croat & Grayum – Costa Rica to Ecuador; Philodendron scherberichii Croat & M.M.Mora ...