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2 unusual facts about Araceae


Anolis podocarpus

Individuals were found at night within a few metres of the ground, sleeping in a head-upward position on the large leaves of ferns, arums or bananas.

Theretra clotho

Elsewhere, other major hostplant families include Actinidiaceae, Araceae, Begoniaceae and Dilleniaceae.


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Agrius convolvuli

Other recorded foodplant include a wide range of plants in the Araceae, Convolvulaceae, Leguminosae and Malvaceae families.

Calla Lily

Zantedeschia, a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to southern Africa

Zantedeschia aethiopica, a species of flowering plant in the family Araceae, native to southern Africa, common names calla lily

Calla, a genus of common flowering plant in the family Araceae, containing the single species Calla palustris, native to cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere

Ganapathi Thanikaimoni

During the next decade this tireless and prolific worker published numerous significant papers concerning such essentially tropical families as the Araceae, Clusiaceae, Menispermaceae, Mimosaceae and Sonnera tiaceae see Palynos 8(2): 7, Dec 1985.

Kabakaburi

The name of the village is Arawak for "the place with the itching bush." The "bush" referred to is a wild arum (Dieffenbachia paludicola) having irritating juice.

North American Native Plant Society

It is a woodcut portraying three native plants representing three transcontinental, native families, viz: Araceae, Orchidaceae, Iridaceae.The examples shown are an arum, a cypripedium and a blue-eyed grass.


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