Pleuranthodium peekelii
(Valeton) R. M. Smith
Opate
ZingiberaceaeFlowers
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
What to Eat
Edible parts: Flowers
The young flowering shoots are eaten.
Where to Find It
It is a tropical plant. It occurs in Bougainville in Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea, PNG,
Countries: Papua New Guinea
How to Identify
A herb. It grows in clumps. The leafy shoots are 3 m tall. The leaves are 60 cm long and 17 cm wide. They are narrowly oval. The fruit are 4 cm long by 1.2 cm wide. They are orange to red and open in 3 parts.
How to Grow
Plants can be grown from seeds.
Wikipedia
Source ↗Pleuranthodium peekelii is a monocotyledonous plant species first described by Theodoric Valeton, and given its current name by Rosemary Margaret Smith. Pleuranthodium peekelii is part of the genus Pleuranthodium and the family Zingiberaceae. No subspecies are listed in the Catalog of Life.
References (1)
- Lofthus, O., 2014, The genus Pleuranthodium (K.Schum.) R.M.Sm. (Zingiberaceae): taxonomy and phylogeny. M. Sc. thesis
