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Pinellia ternata (Thunb.) Makino

Crowdipper (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Alismatales > Araceae > Pinellia

Characteristics

A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It has round tubers 1-2 cm across. There are 2-5 leaves. The leaf stalks are 15-20 cm long. They form sheaths at the base. The leaves have 3 or sometimes 5 leaflets. They are narrowly oval or sword shaped and 3-10 cm long by 1-3 cm wide and with side leaflets 4-8 cm long by 2 cm wide. The spathe is greenish.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.15
Mature height (meter) 0.2
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
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AprMayJun
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Fruit color -
Fruiting months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

A tropical plant. It grows in grassy land, secondary forest, wasteland and cultivated land; below 2500 m in China.
More
Cultivated fields and roadsides all over Japan. Shady and damp grass thickets on mountain sides and stream edges.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 2-5
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 5-8

Usage

CAUTION: The tuber is listed as poisonous.
Uses medicinal poison
Edible roots tubers
Therapeutic use Abscess (unspecified), Antiemetic (unspecified), Antitussive (unspecified), Bronchitis (unspecified), Cancer(Esophagus) (unspecified), Cancer(Stomach) (unspecified), Cancer (unspecified), Chest (unspecified), Dyspepsia (unspecified), Expectorant (unspecified), Fever (unspecified), Gastritis (unspecified), Nausea (unspecified), Pharyngalgia (unspecified), Poison (unspecified), Pregnancy (unspecified), Rheumatism (unspecified), Sedative (unspecified), Spasm (unspecified), Tumor (unspecified), Arthralgia (unspecified), Bite(Snake) (unspecified), Cough (unspecified), Singultus (unspecified), Alopecia (unspecified), Cancer(Breast) (unspecified), Ecbolic (unspecified), Emetic (unspecified), Emission (unspecified), Leukemia (unspecified), Malaria (unspecified), Pectoral (unspecified), Astringent (unspecified), Leucorrhea (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -23
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Pinellia ternata unspecified picture

Distribution

Pinellia ternata world distribution map, present in Austria, Canada, Chile, China, Germany, Japan, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), Taiwan, Province of China, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:972483-1
WFO ID wfo-0000273869
COL ID 6VLK4
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Arisaema loureiroi Arisaema macrourum Pinellia angustata Pinellia fornicata Pinellia ternata Pinellia tuberifera Arisaema ternatum Arum ternatum Atherurus ternatus Arum atrorubens Arum macrourum Arum subulatum Typhonium tuberculigerum Alocasia ternata Pinellia koreana Hemicarpurus fornicatus Pinellia ternata Pinellia ternata f. angustata Arum bulbiferum Arum bulbosum Arum fornicatum Arum triphyllum Pinellia zinguiensis Arum bulbosum Pinellia ternata var. atropurpurea Pinellia ternata var. subpandurata Pinellia ternata var. giraldiana Pinellia ternata var. vulgaris Pinellia ternata var. angustata Pinellia tuberifera var. subpandurata
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