An orchid. It can be 6-40 cm high. The leaves are narrow and grass like. The flowers can vary in colour from green, white, pink or mauve-blue. The tubers are white and shiny. They are 25 mm long. They are edible.
Life form | perennial |
Growth form | herb |
Growth support | free-standing |
Foliage retention | - |
Sexuality | hermaphrodite |
Pollination | - |
Spread | - |
Mature width (meter) | - |
Mature height (meter) | 0.45 |
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 | - |
Edible | roots |
Therapeutic use | - |
Human toxicity | - |
Animal toxicity | - |
Mode | seedlings |
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:660058-1 |
WFO ID | wfo-0000323017 |
COL ID | 7BVZ4 |
BDTFX ID | - |
INPN ID | 673491 |
Wikipedia (EN) | Link |
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