Goeppertia allouia
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Goeppertia allouia, known as lerén or lairén in Spanish, and also known in English as Guinea arrowroot, and sweet corn root, is a plant in the arrowroot family, native to northern South America and th
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Lerén is called "topee-tambo" in Trinidad and Tobago.
Maranta arundinacea
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Maranta arundinacea, also known as arrowroot, maranta, West Indian arrowroot, obedience plant or Bermuda arrowroot is a large, perennial herb found in rainforest habitats of the Americas, but cultivat
Goeppertia allouia
…percent. Archaeologists have discovered that lerén was one of the first plants domesticated in prehistoric South America. Lerén, along with arrowroot (Maranta arundinacea), squash (Cucurbita moschata), and bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) were being eaten and possibly cultivated in Colombia by about 9000 BCE. It appears…
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The root of M. arundinacea.