. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. XANTHOSOMA XANTHOXYLUM loon XANTH0S6MA (Greek, yellow body, referriug to tlie stij4:ma). Ardceie. This getius is iuteresting to the horticulturist us coutaiuiug tlie haudsome variegated stove foliage plant known to the trade as; PhyJlotcenium Lindeni, and part of the vegetables known as "Malauga," a c
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. XANTHOSOMA XANTHOXYLUM loon XANTH0S6MA (Greek, yellow body, referriug to tlie stij4:ma). Ardceie. This getius is iuteresting to the horticulturist us coutaiuiug tlie haudsome variegated stove foliage plant known to the trade as; PhyJlotcenium Lindeni, and part of the vegetables known as "Malauga," a crop to which two per cent of the arable land in Porto Rico is devoted. Many species of the arum family are noted for their huge tubers, some of which are edible "after the acrid and more or less poisonous properties are dispersed by the expression of the juice, or by its dissipation through heat" (B. M. 4989). Of this class the best known is the Elephant's Ear, or Colocaaia es- cuJenta. The Malanga is said to be "lit- tle, if at all, inferior to CalacUum escn- h'litum; in wholesomeness and delicacy far superior to spinach; and in this re- spect it may vie with any European vege- table ;—S()^ Mag. The"Yantia Malanga" of Porto Rico is, according to Cook, Coloeasia antiqtiorum, var. es- culenfa. Other Yantias are species of Xanthosoma. The botany of them is con- fused. Xanthosoma is a genus of 25 species, according to Engler, who has given an account of them in Latin in DC. on Phaner. (1879). They are milky herbs of South and Central America with a tuberous or tall and thick rhizome: Ivs. iirrow-shaped, 3-cut or pedately cut : tls. unisexual, naked : males with 4-6 sta- mens connate in an inversely pyramidal synandrium with 5 or 6 faces: ovary 2-4- ioculed; ovules anatropous. A. Caudex a sJiorf., thiclc, erect rhizome, sagfittildlium, Schott {Arum sagittifd- Hum, Linn.). Malanga. A tropical vegetable. "Young plants of this are st
Size: 1725px × 1448px
Photo credit: © Central Historic Books / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthor, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectgardening
