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Manihot esculenta - Leaf - Click to enlarge!

Leaf; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 5/2005 © Jörn Germer

Manihot esculenta - Flower - Click to enlarge!

Flower; Botanical Garden Berlin, Germany; 3/2009 © Jörn Germer

Manihot esculenta - Fruit - Click to enlarge!

Fruit; Ayeniah, Greater Accra, Ghana; 10/2009 © Jörn Germer

Manihot esculenta - Roots - Click to enlarge!

Roots; Danfa, Greater Accra, Ghana; 4/2006 © Jörn Germer

Manihot esculenta - Tuberous roots - Click to enlarge!

Tuberous roots; P.R. China; 12/2011 © Joachim Sauerborn

Manihot esculenta - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; P.R. China; 12/2011 © Joachim Sauerborn

Manihot esculenta - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 5/2005 © Jörn Germer

Manihot esculenta - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Ayeniah, Greater Accra, Ghana; 10/2009 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 52
Date of entry: 23.06.2005
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Cassava

German: Maniok

Mandarin: 木薯 (mu shu)

Portuguese: Mandioca

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Malpighiales (120)

        Family: Euphorbiaceae (80)(family description)

          Genus: Manihot (4)

            Epithet: esculenta Crantz (4)

Synonyms: Janipha aipi (Pohl) J.Presl, Janipha manihot (L.) Kunth

esculenta => edible, fit for human food

manihot => from the Tupí–Guaraní (indigenous languages of South America) word for cassava (M. esculenta)

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: shrub

Flower colour: green, beige, white

External links

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