Dracontium margaretae

Bogner

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What to Eat

Edible parts: Corm, Root

The corm is boiled and eaten.

It is a tropical plant. It grows in the wet prairie in Venezuela.

Brazil, Paraguay, South America, Venezuela,

Countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Paraguay, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela

A herb in the taro family (Araceae) with an edible corm, native to tropical wet prairies in Venezuela.

Names & Synonyms

Changuange sabanero, Dzipe

Dracontium lineare G. S Bunting & Tillett

References (2)

Gragson, T. L., 1997, The Use of Underground Plant Organs and Its Relation to Habitat Selection among the Pume Indians of Venezuela. Economic Botany, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 377-384
Kermath, B. M., et al, 2014, Food Plants in the Americas: A survey of the domesticated, cultivated and wild plants used for Human food in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. On line draft. p 320