# Introducing a New Crop

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-a-new-crop/835686>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 18, 2019, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-a-new-crop/835686 "2019-06-18T15:10:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-a-new-crop/835686/41 "2019-06-19T16:21:21Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> **Jackmanii** , if you’re puzzled by my comment, stop to think for a moment about what “amorphophallus” would mean.

The Latin name has to do with the shape of the [flower,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSMKcE5XbAQ) not the emerging shoots.

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-a-new-crop/835686/42 "2019-06-19T16:36:11Z")

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In some species the phallus gets even more amorpho. Check out [_Amorphophallus paeoniifolius_](https://www.google.com/search?biw=1408&bih=703&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=bmMKXcuPNsTAsAXNh4aQBw&q=Amorphophallus+paeoniifolius&oq=Amorphophallus+paeoniifolius&gs_l=img.3...97625.97625..98827...0.0..0.0.0.......0....2j1..gws-wiz-img.ylvINCYMU60)!

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**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-a-new-crop/835686/43 "2019-06-20T14:36:56Z")

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> [@gnoitall](#):
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> Not “native to Japan” is kind of misleading. They’ve been growing it since the 6th Century. And they grow a lot of it.

Kind of like the (alleged) obituary in Vermont: “Although not a native, he has lived here since the age of two.”

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