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Tacca ankaranensis is a tuberous herbaceous plant in the yam family, endemic to Madagascar and known from the Ankarana massif in the far north. Little is documented about its cultivation, so care advice here is general to the genus and should be treated as provisional.
Tacca ankaranensis is a species of flowering plant in the yam family Dioscoreaceae, which is endemic to Madagascar. It was discovered on the Ankarana massif in far northern Madagascar.
It was first described in 1997 by Martine Bardot-Vaucoulon.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tacca ankaranensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
