Dioscorea cirrhosa
Dioscoreaceae FAMILY

Dioscorea cirrhosa

Dioscorea cirrhosa

Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Dioscorea cirrhosa is a dioecious, perennial plant producing annual, climbing stems about 10 metres long from a tuberous rhizome[ 303 Title World Agroforesty Centre Publication Author Website http://www.worldagroforestry.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online database of a huge range of trees giving very good information on each plant - its uses, ecology, identity, propagation, pests etc. ]. These stems scramble over the ground, or twine into the surrounding vegetation[ 418 Title Ecocrop Publication Author Website http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/home Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Basic information on a wide range of useful plants, plus details of environmental needs where available. ]. The stems twine to the right[ 303 Title World Agroforesty Centre Publication Author Website http://www.worldagroforestry.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online database of a huge range of trees giving very good information on each plant - its uses, ecology, identity, propagation, pests etc. ]. Formerly traded internationally as an important source of tannins for use as a preservative and dye, nowadays it is only of local importance, but is still cultivated in S China, Taiwan and North Vietnam[ 317 Title Mansfeld's Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Plants Publication Author Website http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:4292127278597336 Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Terse details of a huge range of useful plants. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical
Native RangeE. Asia - southern China, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam.
HabitatThickets and secondary forests, usually in the lowland, but in southern China up to elevations of 1,500 metres[ 303 Title World Agroforesty Centre Publication Author Website http://www.worldagroforestry.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online database of a huge range of trees giving very good information on each plant - its uses, ecology, identity, propagation, pests etc. ].