How to Identify Velvet Arrowroot

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1. Leaves

2. Flowers

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Leaves: oblong-lanceolate, dark green in color, with yellow-green stripes in the middle, and hairless on both sides. Flowers: The flower heads are oval in shape, and the color of the corolla is purple or white. The flowering period is from May to June.

1. Leaves

1. Leaves

Velvet arrowroot has 6-20 leaves, oblong-lanceolate, about 45 cm long and 16 cm wide. The top of the leaf is blunt and the base gradually becomes pointed. The color of the leaf surface is dark green with yellow-green stripes in the middle. The back of the leaf is light gray-green in the early stage, turns lavender when old, and is hairless on both sides. Petiole is about 45 cm.

2. Flowers

Velvet Bamboo Taro has an egg-shaped flower head, similar in size to a goose egg. It grows alone on the scape. The length of the scape is different. The bracts are wide and oval and arranged in an imbricate shape. The smaller bracts are linear and the sepals are oblong. The color of the corolla is violet or white, the lobes are oblong-lanceolate, and the stamens become obovate-oblong after the outer whorl has reduced. The color is lilac cocoon. The flowering period is from May to June.

2. Flowers

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