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Pachyrhizus
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Pachyrhizus

Pachyrhizus is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes five or species of herbs and subshrubs native to the tropical and subtropical Americas, ranging from northern Mexico to northwestern Argentina. Typical habitat is seasonally-dry tropical forest and thicket, often at forest margins, in scrub vegetation, and in open grassy areas. Plants in the genus grow from large, often edible taproots.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Jicama

speciesPachyrhizus erosus

Pachyrhizus ferrugineus

speciesPachyrhizus ferrugineus

Pachyrhizus strigosus

speciesPachyrhizus strigosus

Pachyrhizus tuberosus

speciesPachyrhizus tuberosus

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Pachyrhizus in History of the Plants of New Spain, Volume 3

History of the Plants of New Spain, Volume 3

Francisco Hernández (1517-1587) · 1946 · p.61

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 122986.