PlantFiles Pictures: Elephant's Foot, Turtleback Plant (Dioscorea macrostachys), 1 by palmbob

palmbob wrote:
Here is my little Dioscorea collection... Dioscorea macrostachys is the larger one on the left and D elephantipes is the light brown taller, but smaller one of the right (dinky one in center is D hemicrypta). Note the leaves in the photo- those 'folded' smooth shiny green leaves? Those are D elephantipes leaves. The leaves in your photo look more like D macrostachys, which are about 3-5x larger, flatter, and have lots of little lines in them, like they do in your photos.

This message was edited Oct 3, 2007 7:44 AM