This is a photo from Copenhagen Botanical Garden, which have a really big
one.
Wild ones from Clanwilliam,
South Africa.
Hiding under bushes.
Male flowers.
Female
flowers.
Female
flowers.
And wild fruits
from Clanwilliam, South Africa
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This beautiful member of the Dioscoreaceae
family was given this name
by Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler in 1908. It is from southern
Africa, where it prefer a slightly rich but well drained soil with
some water and some to lots of sun. The caudex
will grow to more than a meter in diameter, the vines reaches easy 5
meters. Both male and female flowers are pale yellow, and the seeds the only
way to reproduce. I got mine both in Roskilde in 1990/2001.
My plants are dormant from time to time! It seems like it will never learn
to live in the northern hemisphere. The caudex must be kept in shade.
Heard of one, who had sown three seeds from the same plant in one
pot. One of them was a winter-grower, the other one a summer-grower
and the third from time to time - in the same pot still!
This
is the record of dormancy of my plant. It did not get out of
the last one.
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It's a dioecious caudiciform, I got two, but I haven't seen them flower.
This is male-flowers from Copenhagen Botanical Garden.
Fruits from and by
Enrico Santimaria. 
This
is fruits from Copenhagen Botanical Garden.
And from
Copenhagen Botanical Garden.
Not the most
nice habitat! Taken over by a dumpsite.
Seen to the
other side, it is lovely.
Tend to be like
this, when it is grown real rough, like in nature.
Female flowers.
Female flowers.
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