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Achira, the edible Canna, its cultivation and use in the peruvian andes

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  1. Daniel W. Gade

    Present address: Department of Geography, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vt

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    This and other field studies in Peru were supported by the Foreign Field Research Program conducted by the Division of Earth Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences— National Research Council and financed by the Geography Branch, Office of Naval Research under Contract Nonr—2300 (09).

    The common wild canna (“achira de monte”) of the eastern Andean slopes of Peru,C. iridiflora R. & P., is one of the few species in the genus not having a fleshy rhizome.

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    Gade, D.W. Achira, the edible Canna, its cultivation and use in the peruvian andes. Econ Bot 20, 407–415 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02904063

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