Perennial herb ; up to 60 cm tall , arising from a subglobose underground tuber , glabrous . Stems erect , pale green , slender . Leaves 2 ; leaf blade pedately divided into 7-12 leaflets ; leaflets fresh green , elliptic , apex acute , margins entire , base wedge-shaped , decreasing in size outwards with the largest in the centre ; petiole green or purplish in colour , sheaths overlapping and forming a pseudostem to 60 cm . Inflorescences arranged in a compact spike (the spadix) , subtended by a large bract (the spathe) . Flowers unisexual ; spathe 3-4 cm , lower part folded over to form a tube 1 . 5 cm , greenish with purplish stripes ; upper part ovate with an acuminate tip , yellow on the outside , purplish-brown at the base on the inside ; female flowers at base of spadix , perianth absent , ovary 1-locular , stigma minute , sessile ; male flowers of 2-4 stamens , upper part of spadix sterile . Fruit berry , ± 5 mm in diameter , globose-ovoid , red when ripe , several-seeded ;
...
No Data
Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Arum flavum Forssk.
Dochafa flava (Forssk.) Schott
No Data
maintenanceAr.Item1
Yellow Cobra Lily
Yellow Jack in the Pulpit
Miller & Morris (1988) wrote that: "The tubers were an important source of nourishment at a lean time of year. They were dug up and cooked slowly under a layer of green leaves (the leaves of Euclea schimperi were considered to impart the best flavour) for a long time over a slow fire. This tuber required the longest cooking of all the edible bulbs of Dhofar, sometimes as long as 8-10 hours. Individual tubers were removed during the cooking process to test for readiness. The tubers are suitable for collecting and eating from mid-monsoon onwards. They do not keep well, but collected in large quantities and cooked immediately, they were a vital food source during the early monsoon period [J: ziyun], when the rains had been sufficient to ruin the standing hay that remained from the last year's rains, without yet having produced fresh vegetation in any quantity, and livestock
...
Ghazanfar, S. (2018). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.4: Hydrocharitaceae – Orchidaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 9789492663153 ISSN 0779-2387. Miller, A., Morris, M. (1988). Plants of Dhofar, the Southern Region of Oman: Traditional, Economic, and Medicinal Uses. Published by Office of the Adviser for Conservation of the Environment, Diwan of Royal Court, Sultanate of Oman; ISBN 10: 0715708082 ISSN 13: 9780715708088. https://en.wikipedia.org https://www.ballyrobertgardens.com POWO (2023). "Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
