Amorphophallus campanulatus (Elephant foot yam)
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A stout herbaceous plant with underground hemispherical depressed dark brown corm; leaves compound, large, solitary, petiole stout, mottled, 60-90 cm long, leaflets 5-12.5 cm long of variable width, obovate or oblong, acute, strongly and many-nerved; male and female inflorescences contiguous, neuters absent, appendage of spadix subglobose or amophous, equalling or longer than the fertile region, spathe campanulate, pointed, strongly, closely veined greenish, pink externally, base wihtin purple, margins recurved, undulate and crisped, male inflorescence subturbinate, female 7.5 cm or more long; fruits obovoid 2-3 seeded red berries. Flowering-fruiting April to June. (Ashok Sheth (Ed.). 2005 The herbs of ayurveda vol.1 Gujarat : Ashok Sheth. p90) |
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नीपं दृष्ट्वा हरितकपिशं केसरैरर्धरूढैर् आविर्भूतप्रथममुकुलाः कन्दलीश्चानुकच्छम् । दग्धारण्येष्वधिकसुरभिं गन्धमाघ्राय चोर्व्याः सारङ्गास्ते जललवमुचः सूचयिष्यन्ति मार्गम् ॥ २१ ॥ Nīpas appear green and red with the half-grown stamens; ニーパの花の芯が半ば伸びて、緑と赤をなすのを |
In the description of the Yakṣa’s wife, the Bimba fruit is used as a metaphor to describe the freshness and redness of her lips. |
(c) Tomomi Sato 2013
Plants of Meghaduta 