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Dracontium spruceanum

Dracontium spruceanum
Photo: Matilda Smith, Public domain
Family
Araceae (Arum family)
Grows as
Succulent
Native range
Costa Rica to S. Trop. America
Climate
wet tropical

About

Dracontium spruceanum is a tropical, succulent flowering plant species of the Amazon rainforest understory. It has been found in the South American countries of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, as well as in the Central American countries of Costa Rica and Panama.

Common names for Dracontium sp. include jergón sacha (or sacha jergon), fer-de-lance, hierba del jergon, erva-jararaca, jararaca, jararaca-taia, milho-de-cobra, and taja-de-cobra.

Other Dracontium plants

Dracontium gigas · Dracontium pittieri · Godwinia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dracontium spruceanum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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