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NTBG Plant Name:

Tacca leontopetaloides

Barcode:

PTBG1000012142

Specimen ID:

055188

Collector ID:

108

Collector Name:

P. Emos Eperiam

Collection Date:

May 12, 2006

Herbarium Name:

Determiner:

David H. Lorence (PTBG) 2012

Observers:

Relio Lengsi

Region:

Micronesia

Country:

Island Group:

CAROLINE ISLANDS

Island:

Pohnpei

State:

POHNPEI STATE

County:

Kitti Municipality

Elevation:

125

Plant Category:

monocot

Plant Description:

Shrub about 3 ft (0.9 m) tall, leaf: smooth and thin, green above and below. N.V. Mwokmwok/mwekimwek [Pohnpeian].

Ethnobotanical Notes:

tubers: For clothing starch. Pull up the tubers, clean, scrape into a basin, squeeze juice into another basin wait for 30 minutes, seperate water from the starch. Use the water as cloth ironing. This will make the cloth not wrinkly. tubers: Food for feeding babies. Pull up the tubers, clean, scrape into a basin, squeeze juice into another basin wait for 30 minutes, seperate water from the starch. Cook the starch for the baby to eat.

Habitat:

Agroforest.

Date of Last Update:

August 6, 2023

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