Arrowroot
अरारोटகூகைக் கிழங்குകൂവ
Maranta arundinacea L.
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 90 cm
- wide
- 91 cm
Marantaceae
Formerly Maranta indica, Maranta minor, Maranta ramosissima, Maranta sylvatica
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to Trop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 30 cm to 1.5 mRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 1–5 ft; Wikipedia 0.3–1.5 m
- Spread
- 30 cm to 1.5 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (6)
- Chinese
- 竹芋, 葛鬱金
- Simplified Chinese
- 斑叶竹芋, 竹芋
- Hindi
- अरारोट
- Tamil
- கூகைக் கிழங்கு
- Marathi
- आरारूट
- Malayalam
- കൂവ
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Maranta arundinacea (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.