Digital Flowers

Araceae

3-Leaves

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Note that the leaves in this family often have reticulate venation rather than parallel venation, which is typical of most monocots. Also, the plants often contain sharp crystals of calcium oxalate and are thus poisonous.

Photo taken by K. R. Robertson the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.

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