Arum dioscoridis

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Arum dioscoridis

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Genus Arum

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Origin : area of origin

wild or cultivated


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Cultivars

History

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Arum dioscoridis Sibth. & Sm. East Mediterranean countries. Theophrastus mentions that the roots and leaves of this plant, steeped in vinegar, were eaten in ancient Greece. The roots, as Pickering remarks [1], are cooked and eaten in the Levant.

  1. Pickering, C. Chron. Hist. Pls. 346. 1879.


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