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Furcraea foetida - Flowers - Click to enlarge!

Flowers; Oke Idanre, Ondo State, Nigeria; 6/2010 © Jörn Germer

Furcraea foetida - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Oke Idanre, Ondo State, Nigeria; 6/2010 © Jörn Germer

Furcraea foetida - Basal rosette - Click to enlarge!

Basal rosette; Oke Idanre, Ondo State, Nigeria; 6/2010 © Jörn Germer

Furcraea foetida - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Oke Idanre, Ondo State, Nigeria; 6/2010 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 1603
Date of entry: 24.02.2011
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Mauritius hemp

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2659)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2572)

    Class: Liliopsida (392)

      Order: Liliales (106)

        Family: Agavaceae (5)(family description)

          Genus: Furcraea (2)

            Epithet: foetida (L.) Haw. (5)

Synonym: Furcraea gigantea Vent.

foetida => evil smelling

gigantea => gigantic, unusually higher than the type

Characteristics

Climate: sub-tropical

Habit: herb

Flower colour: beige

External links

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