Anchomanes difformis

Anchomanes difformis is a plant found in much of subsaharan Africa and is a member of the arum family, the Araceae.

Description

It is a perennial plant with a very large tuberous rhizome up to wide and extending along the surface for several metres, up from which spring a cluster of prickly leaves on stout stalks more than in height, with three major divisions of the blade bearing many squared-off leaflets. Emerging from this same rhizome are pink spathes high atop a peduncle up to in height. The rhizome is exceeded in size only by Nypa fruticans and Dendrocalamus species.