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Leucocasia gigantea
About
Leucocasia gigantea, also called the giant elephant ear or Indian taro, is a species of flowering plant. It is a 1.5–3 m tall aroid plant with a large, fibrous corm, producing at its apex a whorl of thick, green leaves. It is the sole species in genus Leucocasia.
- Family
- Araceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Leucocasia gigantea
- Slug
- leucocasia-gigantea
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Araceae
- Genus
- Leucocasia
- Species
- gigantea
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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