Biology:Colocasia gigantea

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

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 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. Higo-zuiki, 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 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[yes|permanent dead link|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: ethnobotany and conservation". https://bioversityinternational.org/fileadmin/_migrated/uploads/tx_news/The_global_diversity_of_taro__ethnobotany_and_conservation_1402.pdf. 

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