Arracacia
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Arracacia (Spanish name of the plants). Umbelliferae. Also spelled Arracacha. Twenty to 30 species of perennial herbs closely allied to Conium, with calyx- teeth very small or wanting, petals broad, acuminate and inflexed, white to dark purple, fls. in large compound umbels: Lvs. pinnately compound or decompound. A. xanthorrhiza, Bancr. (A. esculenta, DC.), produces edible tuberous roots much eaten by residents of N. S. Amer.; these tubers have branches or lobes the size of carrots, and are boiled. A. Dugesii, Coulter & Rose, Cent. Amer., is reported as a botanic-garden plant. It is tall and coarse, aromatic: Lvs. much decompound, segm. linear.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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