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Eddoe or eddo (Colocasia antiquorum) is a species in genus Colocasia, [2] a tropical vegetable, closely related to taro (dasheen, Colocasia esculenta), which is primarily used for its thickened stems . [3] [4] In most cultivars there is an acrid taste that requires careful cooking. [3]
Taro (/ ˈ t ɑːr oʊ, ˈ t ær-/; Colocasia esculenta) is a root vegetable. It is the most widely cultivated species of several plants in the family Araceae that are used as vegetables for their corms , leaves, stems and petioles .
Colocasia antiquorum or eddoe, [11] [12] sometimes considered a synonym of C. esculenta. [13] Colocasia esculenta or taro (L.) Schott - taro, elephant-ear - native to southern China, the Indian subcontinent, Indochina, Sumatra; naturalized in other parts of Asia as well as Africa, southern Europe, South America, Central America, the West Indies ...
C. esculenta may refer to: Canna esculenta, a garden plant; Collocalia esculenta, the glossy swiftlet, a bird species found in Asia; Colocasia esculenta, the taro or eddoe, a tropical plant species grown primarily for its edible corms
Colocasia prunipes K.Koch & C.D.Bouché (1855) Leucocasia gigantea , also called the giant elephant ear or Indian taro , is a species of flowering plant . It is a 1.5–3 m (4 ft 11 in – 9 ft 10 in) tall aroid plant with a large, fibrous corm , producing at its apex a whorl of thick, green leaves. [ 2 ]
Colocasia esculenta (taro) Eleocharis dulcis (Chinese water chestnut) Ensete spp. (enset) Nymphaea spp. (waterlily) Pteridium esculentum; Sagittaria spp. (arrowhead or wapatoo) Typha spp. Xanthosoma spp. (malanga, cocoyam, tannia, yautia and other names) Colocasia antiquorum (eddoe or Japanese potato) Ginger rhizomes. Bulb. Allium cepa (onion ...
This species of Alocasia grows to about 0.5–1.6 m high, or just over 5 feet, with corms measuring 4 cm to around 10 cm in diameter and 3–5 cm wide. The leaves are big, diamond-blade-shaped, slightly “teardrop” in form, but ovate, with a light green hue and a cordate base.
First described in Java by Marian Raciborski in 1900, taro leaf blight is caused by the oomycete Phytophthora colocasiae, which infects primarily Colocasia spp. and Alocasia macrorrhizos. [1] P. colocasiae primarily infects leaves, but can also infect petioles and corms. [2] Brown lesions on taro; Credit: Scot Nelson, University of Hawaii at Manoa