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Elephant Ear
Xanthosoma robustum
About
Xanthosoma robustum, also known as Elephant Ear, is a robust herbaceous plant native to Central Mexico and Central America that can grow up to 4 meters tall. It's an important plant with uses in medicine, environmental applications, and as a food source. This species has large, waxy, green leaves that can grow over a meter long. The plant also produces distinct inflorescences with a white to yellowish-green spathe and a pale yellow to ochre spadix.
- Family
- Araceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Xanthosoma robustum
- Slug
- xanthosoma-robustum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Araceae
- Genus
- Xanthosoma
- Species
- robustum
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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