Author : Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler 1908
Family : Dioscoreaceae
Habitat : South Africa
The elephant foot, Dioscorea elephantipes, is a perennial deciduous caudiciform vine belonging to the monocot yam family (Dioscoreaceae). The enlarged, exposed tuberous base is a water-storing organ, called a caudex . The caudex most often reaches a...
Author : Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler 1908
Family : Dioscoreaceae
Habitat : South Africa
The elephant foot, Dioscorea elephantipes, is a perennial deciduous caudiciform vine belonging to the monocot yam family (Dioscoreaceae). The enlarged, exposed tuberous base is a water-storing organ, called a caudex . The caudex most often reaches a...
Author : Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler 1908
Family : Dioscoreaceae
Habitat : South Africa
The elephant foot, Dioscorea elephantipes, is a perennial deciduous caudiciform vine belonging to the monocot yam family (Dioscoreaceae). The enlarged, exposed tuberous base is a water-storing organ, called a caudex . The caudex most often reaches a...
Author : Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler 1908
Family : Dioscoreaceae
Habitat : South Africa
The elephant foot, Dioscorea elephantipes, is a perennial deciduous caudiciform vine belonging to the monocot yam family (Dioscoreaceae). The enlarged, exposed tuberous base is a water-storing organ, called a caudex . The caudex most often reaches a...
Author : (Burch.) Spreng.
Family : Dioscoreaceae
Habitat : South Africa
The 'montana' form from the mountains in the South west of Graaf Reinet, with a more marked caudex and more irregular than the typical form
Not Rooted caudex of 14/16 cm.
Plants can be more or less marked because of their buried culture. The crevices of the caudex...
