Accession Data

Dioscorea elephantipes

Common Name: Elephant's Foot, Hottentot-Bread

Family: Dioscoreaceae

Country of Origin: South Africa

Description: Grown as a curiosity in the desert garden (USDA Zone 10) or in the greenhouse; tuber contains saponins, originally cooked and eaten as a famine food by the Hottentots.

Accession Data

USDA Zone: 10

Accession #: 198502808

Accession Date: 1985-12-31 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 2205

Quantity: 2

Source: Unknown

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Liliopsida

Subclass: monocots

Order: Dioscoreales

Family: Dioscoreaceae

Flowering Data:

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References

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Sunday, September 03, 2017.
  2. WCSP (2016). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Sunday, September 03, 2017.

Images

Dioscorea elephantipes