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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.
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 .
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]
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.
The glossy swiftlet was described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Hirundo esculenta. The type locality is Ambon Island, one of the Maluku Islands of Indonesia. [2] [3] The specific epithet esculenta is from esculentus the Latin word for "edible". [4]