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Arisaema consanguineum Schott

Species

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Characteristics

A herb which keeps growing from year to year. It is about 1 m high. It has a tuber. The plant has a single leaf with many leaflets. These have a long thin tail. The leaflets radiate out and there are 11-21 leaflets. The leaflets can be 40 cm long. The leaf stalk is 80 cm long. It often has dark spots. The bract around the flower is pink. It is slightly hooded. It can be 8-15 cm long. The flower forms a long green fleshy stalk with a long tail at the end. It can be 3 cm long.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality dioecy
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.2 - 0.4
Mature height (meter) 1.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

It is a temperate plant. In Nepal it grows at 1600-2800 m altitude. It grows in most areas in subtropical forests. It is frost hardy. It suits hardiness zones 6-9.
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Damp shady pine and mixed forests, shrubberies and grassy slopes at elevations of 1800-3300 metres in the Himalayas.
Light 3-7
Soil humidity 5-7
Soil texture 3-6
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 7-9

Usage

The leaves are boiled and eaten as a vegetable. Caution: Like all plants in the Araceae family it can contain calcium oxalate.
Uses medicinal
Edible leaves tubers
Therapeutic use Abscess (unspecified), Anodyne (unspecified), Bite(Snake) (unspecified), Epilepsy (unspecified), Expectorant (unspecified), Fever (unspecified), Swelling (unspecified), Spasm (unspecified), Boil (unspecified), Cancer(Stomach) (unspecified), Convulsion (unspecified), Decoagulant (unspecified), Inflammation (unspecified), Trauma (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

It is grown from corms.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 30 - 180
Germination temperacture (C°) 12 - 15
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -10
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Leaf

Arisaema consanguineum leaf picture by Kamthenlal Dimngel (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Arisaema consanguineum world distribution map, present in Chile, China, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Taiwan, Province of China, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:85609-1
WFO ID wfo-0000270275
COL ID GN47
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Arisaema consanguineum f. alpestre Arisaema consanguineum Arisaema divaricatum Arisaema consanguineum var. davidianum Arisaema consanguineum var. divaricatum Arisaema erubescens var. consanguineum Arisaema erubescens var. vituperatum Arisaema consanguineum var. giganteum Arisaema tatarinowii f. latisecta Arisaema consanguineum f. latisectum

Lower taxons

Arisaema consanguineum subsp. consanguineum Arisaema consanguineum subsp. kelung-insulare
WorldFloraDB 2024