Colocasia gigantea

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Colocasia gigantea
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Araceae
Genus: Colocasia
Species:
C. gigantea
Binomial name
Colocasia gigantea
(Blume ex Hassk.) Hook.f.

Colocasia gigantea, also called giant elephant ear or Indian taro, is a 1.5–3 m tall herb with a large, fibrous, inedible corm, producing at its apex a whorl of large leaves.[1] The leaf stalk is used as a vegetable in some areas in South East Asia and Japan.

Known as dọc mùng[2][3][4] in Vietnam (bạc hà in some provinces in southern Vietnam), it is often used in canh chua and bún.

In Japanese, it is called hasu-imo[5] (literally, "lotus yam") in general and ryukyu in Kōchi Prefecture as it is originated in Ryukyu Kingdom. It is sometimes used as an ingredient of miso soup, chanpurū and sushi. A Japanese term zuiki means the leaf stalk of both C. gigantea and C. esculenta. , made of a dried stalk and produced solely in Kumamoto Prefecture (or Higo Province), is a sex toy with a history of several hundred years, containing saponin which is considered to affect sexual pleasure.[citation needed]

Colocasia gigantea is close to Alocasia macrorrhizos and is thought to be produced from natural crossing between A. macrorrhizos and C. esculenta.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ Anton Ivancic et al. Thermogenesis and flowering biology of Colocasia gigantea, Araceae Archived 2013-10-29 at the Wayback Machine J Plant Res (2008) 121:73–82.
  2. ^ Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hue 'Taro diversity and use in Vietnam'. Ethnobotany and genetic diversity of Asian taro: focus on China
  3. ^ Loài Dọc mùng[permanent dead link] Tri thức việt - Vietgle.
  4. ^ MATSUDA M and NAWATA E "Taro in Northern Vietnam : Its Uses, Cultivation, and Genetic Variation" Japanese Journal of Tropical Agriculture, VOL.46;NO.4;PAGE.247-258(2002)
  5. ^ Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hue 'Taro diversity and use in Vietnam' Ethnobotany and genetic diversity of Asian taro: focus on China
  6. ^ The Global Diversity of Taro[permanent dead link] Ethnobotany and Conservation Bioversity International


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