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Dioscorea elephantipes – Hottentot Bread – Plants
€6,95 – €12,95
Dioscorea elephantipes bulbs. You get a bulb with leaf if possible. This depends on the time of year and how actively the plant is growing.
All plants and cuttings are shipped bare-root, without soil or their original nursery pot. Orders ship Monday-Friday each week. Please allow 1-3 business days for your order to be processed.
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Please check our FAQ & Help page for planting and germination instructions and for questions about your order. NB: Plant colors may vary during the year depending on light, temperature and water.
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Dioscorea elephantipes (Testudinaria elephantipes), commonly known as Hottentot Bread or Elephant’s Foot. A nice caudex type plant that forms a wooden bulb over time. These plants can get extremely old and the wooden bulb can reach diameters of almost 1 meter.
The plant grows fine in regular Succulent soil. Plant the bulb 0,5 – 1 cm deep in the soil. Give it some shade (we grow these on the lower shelves in the greenhouse). It needs good watering when the plant is actively growing and showing leaves. This is usually in spring and autumn. Reduce waterings when the plant has dropped her leaves. Dioscorea elephantipes tends to drop her leaves in the dry hot summer months and in winter. Do not worry if the leaf stem breaks. It can form a new one.
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Erik bij de Vaate –
I have good hopes for this cute little fella!
xained –
Received it quickly. It arrived dormant .. can’t wait to see some life in it, to know if it’s healthy.
Elisa –
I got a beautiful tiny plant with a vine and three leaves! So happy 🙂
Sabrina Brunner –
Ordered two and received four healthy plants! And bigger than described – all of them at least 2cm, and one surely 3cm.
It took them quite a while to get established, but I’m also a newbie when it comes to codex plants… Now they are happily growing, developing new vines and plumping up that codex. 🙂
Marta Moll –
i´ve got 2 bulbs, they grow and grow and grow …
silvia.piccola –
Molto bella, arrivata in ottime condizioni.
Ottimo venditore. Complimenti molto soddisfatta.
alliguarneri –
I received 2 rooted bulbs, in perfect conditions, one of them had a vine but it dried out during the shipping! Not too bad as, after some acclimatization, they are now all starting to grow new vines! I find them a bit tricky to handle, with the dormant stage, but they are SO worthy
Mateo Gomez –
Super happy with my Dioscoreas and the service! They’re dormant at the moment, so I can’t wait to start seeing those beautiful vines start growing.
Valentin Ambroise –
I ordered 2 plants and received 2 gorgeous plantlets and 3 smaller “bulbs”. The leaves dried during transport but they should give new ones in a few days. Awesome!
Michael Wagenaar –
Super, drie ontvangen in goede staat. Blij mee!
ginnginn –
Bulbs were fresh and well-packed. They took a few days to acclimatise to their new surroundings, but now they’re very happy!