| Author: | Reinhard
Gustav Paul Knuth, 1850 |
| Family: |
DIOSCOREACEAE |
| Origin: |
Argentina,
Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay,
Peru, Suriname, Venezuela (Mexico?) |
| Soil: |
Rich Drained |
| Water:
|
Medium - Maximum |
| Sun: |
Medium - Maximum |
| Thickness: |
5 Centimetres |
| Height: |
4 Metres |
| Flower:
|
White |
| Propagate: |
Seeds |
| Names:
|
Ornamental
Yam, Variegated Ornamental Yam |
| Synonyms: |
Dioscorea dodecaneura, José Mariano da Conceição Vellozo,
2004 =
Dioscorea dodecandra, Steud.
Dioscorea dodecaneura var. maronensis, Uline ex
R.Knuth
Dioscorea dodecaneura var. villosa, R.Knuth.
Dioscorea hebantha, Mart. ex Griseb.
Dioscorea huallagensis, R.Knuth.
Dioscorea illustrata, W.Bull
Dioscorea kita, Queva.
Dioscorea racemosa, Rusby.
|
This member of the Dioscoreaceae family was given this name by Reinhard Gustav Paul Knuth in 1850. It is found
in Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico and Venezuela, growing in a well drained
but rich soil with
quite some water and lots of sun. The caudex can grow to five
centimetres in diameter, the entire plant to four metres in
height. The
flowers are white.
Dioscorea is named after
Pedianos Dioscorides, a Greek physician if the 1st century A.D. The
species name means 'of two different (and, usually, distinct)
colours', and the leaves can be that. |
