Orchidaceae FAMILY
Eulophia speciosa
Eulophia speciosa
Edibility
3/5
Medicinal
0/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Eulophia speciosa is a perennial plant producing 3 - 6 leaves 15 - 65cm long on a central flowering stem up to 150cm tall. The stem grows out of an underground pseudobulb[ 308 Title Flora Zambesiaca Publication Author Website http://apps.kew.org/efloras/fz/intro.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online flora of plants from the Zambezi River basin. It lists a number of the plant uses as well as the habitats and botanical descriptions of the plants. ]. The bulbs are a favoured food of local people within the plants native range, and are extensively harvested from the wild for local use. The plant is often cultivated as an ornamental, especially by Orchid growers.
Habitat & Origin
Origintropical
Native RangeAfrica - Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, DR Congo, Uganda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Zambi, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, S. Afri
HabitatGrassland and wooded grassland with shrubs, miombo and mixed deciduous woodland, usually on sandy soils, also in brackish swampy coastal grassland, at elevations up to 1,700 metres[ 308 Title Flora Zambesiaca Publication Author Website http://apps.kew.org/efloras/fz/intro.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online flora of plants from the Zambezi River basin. It lists a number of the plant uses as well as the habitats and botanical descriptions of the plants. ].