Xanthosoma

Herausgegeben:Surhone, Lambert M.; Timpledon, Miriam T.; Marseken, Susan F.

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Xanthosoma is a genus of about 50 species of tropical and sub-tropical arums in the flowering plant family, Araceae, all native to tropical America. Several species are grown for their starchy corms, an important food staple of tropical regions, known variously as malanga, new cocoyam, tannia, tannier, yautía, macabo, taioba , dasheen, quequisque and ape. Many other species are utilized as ornamental plants, and in popular horticultural literature are known as ape or elephant ear, although the latter name is sometimes also applied to members with similar appearance and uses in the closely related genera of Caladium, Colocasia, and Alocasia. The leaves of most Xanthosoma species are 40-200 cm long, sagittate or subdivided into 3 or as many as 18 segments.

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• Verlag: Betascript Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm
• ISBN-13: 9786130955106
• ISBN-10: 6130955103
• Artikelnr.: 29879553