View source for Testudinaria elephantipes

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Testudinaria elephantipes, Salisb. Rootstock studded with angular woody protuberances, sometimes 1-3 ft. diam.: sts. slender, glabrous, much branched, twining, 8-10 ft. high: lvs. suborbicular, bright green or glaucous, mucronate: fls. small, inconspicuous, the racemes greenish yellow or whitish. S. Afr. B.M. 1347 (as Tamus. B.R. 921.—The globular yam-like bulb or rootstock sometimes weighs 100 pounds. The inner part of this "bulb" has been compared to a turnip for texture and color. The Hottentots used to cut it in pieces, bake it in the embers and eat it. Old and grotesque bulbs have been brought from time to time from the Cape as curiosities. The plant is of easy cult. in a cool greenhouse. No method of prop. by the bulb is known.
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