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Elephant ear plant with yellow blossom Elephant ear plant with blossom. Colocasia is a genus [3] [4] of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to southeastern Asia and the Indian subcontinent. Some species are widely cultivated and naturalized in other tropical and subtropical regions. [1] [5]
Colocasia esculenta is a perennial, tropical plant primarily grown as a root vegetable for its edible, starchy corm. The plant has rhizomes of different shapes and sizes. Leaves are up to 40 by 25 centimetres ( 15 + 1 ⁄ 2 by 10 inches) and sprout from the rhizome.
Colocasia tibetensis J.T.Yin Colocasia yunnanensis C.L.Long & X.Z.Cai Colocasia fallax , the silver leaf dwarf elephant ear or dwarf taro , is a species of flowering plant in the family Araceae , native to the Indian Subcontinent, Tibet and Yunnan in China, and mainland Southeast Asia . [ 1 ]
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]
Colocasia is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae erected by the German actor and entomologist Ferdinand Ochsenheimer. Species. Colocasia coryli (Linnaeus, 1758)
The slanted shape of the taro leaf encourages sporangia and zoospores to spread to other hosts via splash from rain. The pathogen can also be transmitted across fields by infected plant material or contaminated tools. [5] The pathogen can survive as mycelium for a few days in dead and dying plant tissues as well as in infected corms. [1]
Colocasia propinquilinea, the closebanded yellowhorn, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1873. It is found in North America from Newfoundland and Labrador , west across the southern edge of the boreal forest to central Alberta , south to North Carolina , Missouri and Arkansas .
Colocasia flavicornis (yellowhorn) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in North America , east of the Rocky Mountains . In Canada , it is found in Ontario , Quebec , New Brunswick , Nova Scotia , Saskatchewan and Manitoba .