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Cheeky yam or sweet snakeskin lily
Amorphophallus galbra
About
Amorphophallus galbra, commonly known as cheeky yam or sweet snakeskin lily, is a perennial herbaceous plant in the arum family Araceae found in New Guinea and northern Australia. It has an underground tuber which produces flower spikes and leaves in the wet season, which then die off during the dry season.
- Family
- Araceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Amorphophallus galbra
- Slug
- amorphophallus-galbra
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Araceae
- Genus
- Amorphophallus
- Species
- galbra
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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