Common name: Elephant's Foot, Hottentot-Bread
Family: Dioscoreaceae
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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.
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USDA Zone: 10
Source: Unknown
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- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Liliopsida
- SubClass: monocots
- Order: Dioscoreales
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- Family: Dioscoreaceae
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References:
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Sunday, September 03, 2017.
- WCSP (2016). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Sunday, September 03, 2017.
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