Taro botany, one of several common names for large perennial herbs of a plant genus, especially for one species, of the arum family. The genus is...
Taro Fields near Princeville, Kauai, Hawaii. Common name: Taro, eddoe, and dasheen Family: Araceae Botanical name: Colocasia esculenta Origin: Eastern India
DISTRIBUTION. Taro traveled through China and Japan, southward to Indonesia, taken to Melanesia and then into Polynesia. Earliest Polynesian settlers brought taro ...