Manihot esculenta Crantz

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^AMTi OF SOUTH AMERICA
Collected fey Thos. Morong, 1888-1890.
1	Central Paraguay.
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Monograph of Manihot (Euphorbiaeeae)
Ma ni hot esculenta Crantz
Rogers, D. J. & S. G. Appan, taxon no. 1
in Flora Neotropica No. 13
Annotated June, 1971
v
Manihot Aipi, Fohl., PI. Bras., i, 29.
Asuncion (390).
Cultivated extensively and sometimes spontaneous in Paraguay.
Known as Mandioca dulce, or the sweet or innocuous Manioc.
A shrubby plant witl^smooth stems and deeply 6-7-parted leaves,
1-1^ m.in height. - rdots are gr^tl^.e^eemed as. vegetables,
looting when bo He’d for the table something 43ke parsnips. They
are also used for feeding cattle. The meal made by grinding them i
and drying the pulp, Mlled farina, forms tbe^principal subsistenceJ
of the common people. A delicious bread known as chipa is maim-,
factured from it and it serves as many purposes as wheat flour does j
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