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Arisarum vulgare O.Targ.Tozz.

Friar's cowl (en), Capuchon de moine (fr), Capuchon-de-moine (fr), Gouet à capuchon (fr), Arum à capuchon (fr), Arisare commun (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Alismatales > Araceae > Arisarum

Characteristics

A tuber plant. It keeps growing from year to year. It can form colonies. There is one leaf which is yellow green. The blade is spearhead shaped. It is 5-13 cm long. The leaf stalk is mottled. It is 30 cm long. The flower appears with or above the leaves. The bract around the flower is hooded and green. It is 2.5-5 cm long and can be striped. The fruit stalk is fleshy and green. It is slightly curved and shows above the bract. The fruit are green berries.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality monoecy
Pollination entomogamy
Spread endozoochory
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.23 - 0.3
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) 0.12
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It occurs in the Egyptian Mediterranean coast in non salty depressions. It is often in partly shaded locations. It can grow in arid places. It suits hardiness zones 7-10.
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Grassy places, open ground and rocky ground.
Light 4-7
Soil humidity 4-7
Soil texture 2-6
Soil acidity 3-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 7-9

Usage

The leaves are eaten as a green vegetable. The starch of the root is used for adding to bread flour after removing the acrid element.
Uses animal food food medicinal
Edible leaves roots tubers
Therapeutic use Medicine (unspecified), Tumor(Spleen) (unspecified), Tumor(Ear) (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

It is grown from tubers.
Mode divisions seedlings tubers
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Habit

Arisarum vulgare habit picture by Patrice Nodet (cc-by-sa)
Arisarum vulgare habit picture by Francois Mansour (cc-by-sa)
Arisarum vulgare habit picture by alexis joly (cc-by-sa)

Leaf

Arisarum vulgare leaf picture by Émile Maurice (cc-by-sa)
Arisarum vulgare leaf picture by Fernandez Victoria (cc-by-sa)
Arisarum vulgare leaf picture by Valérie (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Arisarum vulgare flower picture by Sebastià Benejam (cc-by-sa)
Arisarum vulgare flower picture by jac volbeda (cc-by-sa)
Arisarum vulgare flower picture by Émile Maurice (cc-by-sa)

Fruit

Arisarum vulgare fruit picture by Javier Noguera (cc-by-sa)
Arisarum vulgare fruit picture by Mileine OLLIVIER (cc-by-sa)
Arisarum vulgare fruit picture by hurtado mateo (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Arisarum vulgare world distribution map, present in Albania, Cyprus, Algeria, Egypt, Spain, France, Greece, Italy, Libya, Morocco, Palau, Singapore, Turks and Caicos Islands, and Tunisia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:85902-1
WFO ID wfo-0000275694
COL ID GNFB
BDTFX ID 6424
INPN ID 83755
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Arum libani Arisarum vulgare Arum calyptrale Arum incurvatum Arisarum serpentrium Balmisa vulgaris Arisarum balansae Arum arisarum Arisarum vulgare var. veslingii Arisarum vulgare subsp. veslingii Arisarum arisarum Arisarum incurvatum Arisarum latifolium Arum arisarum

Lower taxons

Arisarum vulgare subsp. clusii Arisarum vulgare subsp. vulgare Arisarum vulgare subsp. hastatum
WorldFloraDB 2024