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Sagittaria macrophylla
About
Sagittaria macrophylla, common name papa de agua, is an aquatic plant species. It produces underground starchy tubers that are edible. It has large, hastate (arrow-shaped) leaves with blades up to 30 centimetres long. The terminal lobe is large and broadly lanceolate, while the two basal lobes are much smaller and narrower.
- Family
- Alismataceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Sagittaria macrophylla
- Slug
- sagittaria-macrophylla
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Alismataceae
- Genus
- Sagittaria
- Species
- macrophylla
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 28
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