Perennial with half-exposed and armour-plated tuber, base broadly lobed, stems divaricate, erect or twisting to the left, to 1.2 m. Leaves broadly ovate. Male flowers in erect racemes, female flowers in spreading spikes, yellowish.
Life form | perennial |
Growth form | herb |
Growth support | climber |
Foliage retention | deciduous |
Sexuality | dioecy |
Pollination | - |
Spread | - |
Mature width (meter) | - |
Mature height (meter) | - |
Root system | - |
Rooting depth (meter) | - |
Root diameter (meter) | - |
Flower color | - |
Blooming months | - |
Fruit color | - |
Fruiting months | - |
Nitrogen fixer | - |
Photosynthetic pathway | - |
Light | - |
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Soil texture | - |
Soil acidity | - |
Soil nutriment | - |
Hardiness (USDA) | - |
Uses | - |
Edible | - |
Therapeutic use | - |
Human toxicity | - |
Animal toxicity | - |
Mode | - |
Germination duration (days) | 21 - 36 |
Germination temperacture (C°) | 21 - 23 |
Germination luminosity | - |
Germination treatment | - |
Minimum temperature (C°) | - |
Optimum temperature (C°) | - |
Size | - |
Vigor | - |
Productivity | - |
LSID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:318055-1 |
WFO ID | wfo-0000390905 |
COL ID | 36CQW |
BDTFX ID | - |
INPN ID | - |
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