Dioscorea elephantipes (elephant's foot yam)
Elephant's foot yam is a spectacular shrubby climber from South Africa, which is threatened due to over-collection.
Dioscorea elephantipes flowers (Image: Wolfgang Stuppy) ...
Dioscorea elephantipes, Testudinaria elephantipes
Cacti and Succulents
Slow-growing; may be started from seed in spring, divided in spring, or started from sections of tuber taken spring or fall. Moderately rich, well-draining soil. Zone 10 ...
Dioscorea elephantipes (syn. Testudinaria elephantipes)
120cm ø, 200 (400)cm, famous Elephant's Foot make a massive rootstock with a heavily fissured bark on top from which emerge annual to semiperennial twining stems with heart shaped, ...
Dioscorea elephantipes, Testudinaria elephantipes
Family: Dioscoreaceae
Elephant foot, Turtle shell, Hottentot-Bread
Origin: South Africa ...
Hottentot's Bread [English]: Dioscorea elephantipes
Hottentot-Bread [English]: Dioscorea mexicana
Hottentot-Bread [English]: Dioscorea elephantipes
Hottentot-Bread [English]: Tamus elephantipes
Hottentot-Fig [English]: Carpobrotus edulis ...
 See also: Dioscorea, Elephant, Stock, Green, May
  
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