A herb that grows in clean, shallow, slow moving water. It produces tubers. The leaves are large and arrow shaped. They are 30 cm long. The end lobe is the largest and there are 2 smaller lobes towards the base.
Life form | perennial |
Growth form | herb |
Growth support | free-standing |
Foliage retention | deciduous |
Sexuality | - |
Pollination | - |
Spread | - |
Mature width (meter) | - |
Mature height (meter) | 0.6 - 0.9 |
Root system | - |
Rooting depth (meter) | - |
Root diameter (meter) | - |
Flower color | |
Blooming months | - |
Fruit color | - |
Fruiting months | - |
Nitrogen fixer | - |
Photosynthetic pathway | - |
Light | |
Soil humidity | |
Soil texture | - |
Soil acidity | - |
Soil nutriment | - |
Hardiness (USDA) |
Uses | food |
Edible | leaves roots tubers |
Therapeutic use | - |
Human toxicity | - |
Animal toxicity | - |
Mode | - |
Germination duration (days) | - |
Germination temperacture (C°) | - |
Germination luminosity | - |
Germination treatment | - |
Minimum temperature (C°) | - |
Optimum temperature (C°) | - |
Size | - |
Vigor | - |
Productivity | - |
LSID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:58524-1 |
WFO ID | wfo-0000736881 |
COL ID | 4TYQV |
BDTFX ID | 59161 |
INPN ID | 119856 |
Wikipedia (EN) | Link |
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