Anchomanes giganteus
A large tuberous aroid from central Africa that sends up a single tall, prickly-stalked, much-divided leaf each wet season and dies back when the rains stop. Grow it warm and bright-shaded in a deep pot, water heavily while in leaf and keep the tuber nearly dry during dormancy.
Where it grows wild
Like other Anchomanes it grows from a big underground tuber in forest edges, gallery forest and wooded thickets on deep, humus-rich soil. Details for this species are thin; the habitat is inferred from the genus and the recorded sites around Lake Tanganyika and coastal Congo.
Records sit from near sea level in Congo to about 870 m by Lake Tanganyika in Burundi; few records carry an elevation.
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