Cultivated Plants

Araceae
Colocasia esculenta   (L.) Schott
Dasheen. Dasheen chou. Dasheen wouj. Dasheen blan. Danma. Kalalou. Eddoe.
Probably native to tropical Asia.
Young shoots can be eaten as a kalalou - the skin needs to be removed from the leaf stalk.
in the wild
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