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Amorphophallus paeoniifolius
About
Amorphophallus paeoniifolius, the elephant foot yam or whitespot giant arum, is a tropical plant native to Island Southeast Asia. It is cultivated for its edible tubers in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Madagascar, New Guinea, and the Pacific islands. Because of its production potential and popularity as a vegetable in various cuisines, it can be raised as a cash crop.
- Family
- Araceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Amorphophallus paeoniifolius
- Slug
- amorphophallus-paeoniifolius
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Araceae
- Genus
- Amorphophallus
- Species
- paeoniifolius
- Wikidata QID
- Q151527
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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