Accession Data:
Maranta arundinacea L.
- Common Name: Arrowroot
- Family: Marantaceae Peterson
- Country of Origin: Mexico to Trop. America
- Habitat: Escaped in damp ditches along roadside.
- Description: Arrowroot was one of the earliest plants to be domesticated for food in northern South America, with evidence of exploitation or cultivation of the plant dating back to 8200 BCE.4
Accession Data:
- Accession # 201900216
- Source: Kress Collection, SI#2002128
- Provenance:
Kress# 02-7144 Kress, W. J., Temeles, E., Clark, J., Lopez, I. Dominica: St. Joseph Parish Layou River Road. 15.4128, -61.3925, 25 Apr 2002 herb, Shoots to 1 m, shoots and leaves green. Tubers white. Flowers ephemeral, white.
- Accession Date: 07-10-2019
- Bench: 3207 - ZING: Zingiber
- Currently: active - healthy
- Qty: 2 confirmed on 10-10-2024
Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Liliopsida
- SubClass: commelinids
- Order: Zingiberales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Marantaceae
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Flowering Data:
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References (internal):
- EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Mexico Central / Mexico Northeast / Mexico Gulf / Mexico Northwest / Mexico Southwest / Mexico Southeast / Belize / Costa Rica / El Salvador / Guatemala / Honduras / Nicaragua / Panama / Cuba / Dominican Republic / Haiti / Leeward Is. / Puerto Rico / Venezuelan Antilles / Windward Is. / French Guiana / Guyana / Suriname / Venezuela / Colombia / Ecuador / Peru / Brazil West-Central
References (external):
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Saturday, 04 May, 2019.
- WCSP (2019). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Saturday, 04 May, 2019.
- Image #00 (cropped) & #01 (original) used with the permission of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10th and Constitution Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20560-0193. Last accessed on Monday, 15 July, 2019.
- Wikipedia. Last accessed on Wednesday, 16 October, 2019.
data regenerated on Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:00:09 -0500 [bcm v4.0]
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