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Photo from Lithops.es.


Photo from Lithops.es.

Author: T.A: Durand & Hans Schinz, 1894
Family:  DIOSCOREACEAE
Origin:  Eswatini, Mozambique, South Africa
Soil:  Rich
Water:  Medium - Maximum
Sun:  Minimum - Medium
Thickness:  6 Centimetres
Height:  3 Metres
Flower:  Greenish
Propagate:  Seeds/Rhizomes
Names:  -
Synonyms:  Helmia dregeana, Carl Sigismund  Kunth, 1850

This member of the Dioscoreaceae family was given this name by Théophile Alexis Durand and Hans Schinz in 1894. It is found in Eswatini, Mozambique and South Africa, growing in a rather rich but still drained soil with some to much of water and little to some sun. The rhizomes can grow to six centimetres in diameter, the vines reach three meters.

 I do not know, if they can have their rhizomes exposed, or how old each rhizome will grow.

Dioscorea is named after Pedianos Dioscorides, a Greek physician if the 1st century A.D. The species name is in honour of the German collector Johan Franz Drège.