Talk:Colocasia esculenta

message: This sounds just like the root of the plant.  Why not just call it a root vegetable?  Sounds less confusing to me.
Saritamackita 21:41, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: A root is technically different than a corm.  A corm can grow on or from a root, and has nodes (which aboveground are what leaves come from).  Roots themselves are generally node-less, and either gather water/nutrients from the ground or anchor plants.  Corms are more just storage.  I think : )  217.166.94.1 (talk) 13:52, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes.  A corm is technically a stem, not a root, even though it is underground. That is why it has nodes.  A corm, like a tuber, is an underground stem that is modified as a storage organ. Api11aYacheq (talk) 00:21, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: corm?

message: No mention has been made at all about taro's association with India. From all information that i have seen, the taro's origin is India/ Bangladesh from where it travelled to Egypt about 2000 yeras ago.
Also, taro - known as arvi in Hindi - is a popular food in India. in North India its the taro corm that is more popular whereas in Gujarat and South India, its leaves are consumed in a uniue way. They are lined with rice flour paste, then rolled into long rolls that are cut into rounds. these rounds are either steamed in curries or fried - patrel is a very popular gujarati snack - ratna rajaiah
Obviously you have a problem with facts. Do you have a source for your insistance that there is but one species in the Genus Colocasia? - Marshman 16:54, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of species in genus 

message: I removed the statement that taro is also used as an "affectionate name" for mainlanders by Taiwanese, because it seemed more appropriate to the mainlander article than here.  It's a fact about language use, rather than about the plant. - Pekinensis 20:04, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I would agree.  However, every article namespace has a potential problem of requiring some sort of disambiguation, so its presence here somewhere could be justified.  My objection would be that it is really not necessarily an English language factoid, or maybe one that better fits under Taiwan culture or something - Marshman 21:49, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

text: It's a cultural reference derived from the plant's perceived contrast to the sweet potato (the nickname for non-Mainlander Taiwanese).  But I agree it's not really a mainstream English language reference.  A-giau 12:25, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed this sentence as I didn't understand it: "Its flower is totally known in Korea; Korean farmers spread it with its corm.". Rmhermen 18:19, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The taro is a flowering plant, but taro does not bloom in Korea. I don't know if it's because of the weather or because of the harvesting, but taro does not spread by seeds in Korea. It's true and any Korean taro farmer can tell you that, although I guess it's difficult to find someone on the web who says the same. --Kjoonlee 17:56, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll put it back in if I can find a citation. --Kjoonlee 17:56, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

text: 176.106.58.133: The island used to be attached to the mainland until about 10,000 years ago when the glacier melted, raising the sea level. The influence of mainlanders over the ages cannot be denied. Taiwan's government is referred to as the Republic of China. The People's Republic of China, on the mainland, does not recognize an independent Taiwan and has succeeded in using it's influence to prevent widespread international recognition of the Republic of China: it's not recognized by the UN and few countries have a formal diplomatic relationship with it. Should Taiwan ever declare full-blown independence, the People's Republic of China has a policy "to use force to ensure reunification if peaceful reunification is no longer possible, as stated in its anti-secession law" [Wikipedia]. See the Taiwan article for more details. Taiwan, or the Republic of China, is only relatively independent by the grace of the People's Republic of China. Remember how much trouble Angelina Jolie got herself into when she called Ang Lee "Taiwanese" instead of "Chinese". So, as you can see, it's a complex cultural and political issue. Cuisine and taro are only a small component of the picture. Thank you, Wordreader (talk) 21:53, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taiwanese and mainlanders 

message: "Taro is believed to be one of the earliest cultivated plants."
Source for this? -- 201.51.201.107 19:16, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Taro as one of earliest cultivated plants?

message: I bought Taro from a Japanese food store and also my local super market. I planted it and it came out the same. I went to the Korean market, bought it and the tarot plants look different. The edges of the leaves are purple, really, really dark purple, as are the stems. On the Japanese variety the stems are green with tinges of purple at the base of the stem kind of scattered out rather than concentrated. I read on the internet that there are two basic kinds of taro the "mountain" kind ("asian") and then the "wetland" kind (Hawaiian). However, I did not realize there were sub varieties within that... anyone have an idea what variety of the mountain kind of taro I have that would produce that sort of look? I'm having trouble finding it on the Internet. --Hitsuji Kinno 20:50, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Then could you add something on cultivars? (with references) I can take a picture of the two types of taro... but they are mountain rather than wetland taro... and from what I know Hawaii tends to grow wetland (is that correct?) Noting such things might be useful. There are examples of listed cultivars in banana, carrot, and pineapple articles. Considering the range of taro, listing a few common base groups would be useful.--Hitsuji Kinno 02:31, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Variety and color?

message: what are the differences other than that ube is purple? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.107.217.63 (talk • contribs) 04:30, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: differences with ube

message: I think "malanga coca" might be an alternate name. Badagnani 17:46, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: another from india possibly like sounds "Arbe"77.133.23.219 11:24, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternate name? 

message: A user on IRC was having trouble posting this, so I did so in their stead
:The article sounds incorrect to me.  
:1) Does taro contain Calcium oxalate or Oxalic acid or both?  intro says one then a couple paragraphs down with get the other with no explanation why the discrepancy.
:2) The article says these Oxalates are borken down by cooking.  Well no.  Calcium Oxalate.monohydrate will break down to CaCO3 at about 500C.  Most foods are not cooked at 500C.  Oxalic acid is quite stable and decomposes at 189.5C.  Most foods are not cooked at this temperature and indeed one would need a rather powerful autoclave.
:So what gives?  What are the Oxalate levels anyways? 
--Agamemnon2 20:00, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: oxalates

message: I have always heard that it grows with one very large corm (slightly smaller than an American football) and many smaller ones, on one plant. But the article doesn't mention this. Is this correct? Badagnani 06:27, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Size 

message: It's important to distinguish in the article between taro root and taro leaves, as both are edible, and the leaves are delicious and extremely nutritious. Please specify and differentiate! Most of this article seems to be about the root, as if it's understood that that is the only useful or edible or desirable part of the plant -- which is hardly the case. Please fix the terminology and specify which part is being discussed in every instance. Thanks. Softlavender (talk) 06:18, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  root (corm) vs. leaf 

message: What are the brownish veins in the corm (which a regular potato, for example, doesn't have)? This should be described in the article. Badagnani (talk) 18:49, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brown veins in corm 

message: I think swamp taro should also be mentioned. This species is (i think) related to taro, is called Cryptosperma chamissonis and has some benefits over regular taro such as: 
* hardier
* can endure periods of drought
It is an aquatic-type plant, grown in wetlands and used/grown heavily in melanesia and around other areas in the pacific.
Please include,
Thanks,
KVDP  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.64.200.150 (talk) 17:21, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Swamp taro 

message: I think the species of Phytophthora mentioned may be Phytophthora colocasiae Rac., which is the causal agent of leaf blight on taro (ref. Ann, Kao and Ko, in Mycopathologia vol. 93 pgs. 193-194, available at http://www.springerlink.com/content/k144k20265267387/).  If so it is hardly newly identified, as this article is from 1986 and Google provided older references.  However, there could be a different species causing the "root rot" mentioned in the article.
Pertusaria (talk) 21:08, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: ''[[Phytophthora]]''

message: I belive there is a GE taro and some opposition to its cultivation. This needs a mention. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 04:04, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  GE taro 

message: The etymology given in the subsection Taro#Names and origin is not quite correct. I'm not inclined to dig up a citation and fix it for Wikipedia, but I'll give you a headstart by observing that these Oceanic /o/ do not reflect Malayo-Polynesian /*a/; i.e. the protoform cannot have been (and is not thought to have been) /*talas/. Also, some specific examples of Oceanic forms (e.g. Motu /talo/) would be more informative than a string of undesignated variants.24.22.141.61 (talk) 22:14, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Etymology not quite correct

message: There is something not quite right about the Japan section.  Let me make a few observations:  I have noticed that Japan's satoimo does not taste quite like taro.  The consistency is also different.  I have also noticed that in southern Japan there is something called oyaimo (parent potato), which is much more similar to the taste of taro.  Moreover, those who read Japanese will notice that Japanese Wikipedia has two separate articles for "satoimo" and "taroimo".  If they are the same thing, then why two separate articles?  I think that satoimo is slightly different from what we commonly regard as taro.  And I think the Japanese commonly call taro "taroimo" or "oyaimo", not satoimo.  I realize that we may be talking here about subsets and supersets, but the fact remains that satoimo is different in taste and texture from taro.  As further proof, the article states that taro today is made into taro chips, but I have never seen satoimo chips.  --Westwind273 (talk) 01:43, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: One possibility is that satoimo is the other subspecies, C. esculenta var antiquorum (see Eddoe). It's a tangled web--common names get re-used for different species or subspecies, while the scientific names get redefined, or species become subspecies. Do the Japanese articles offer any more clues? Could you link them so that we can look at them via Google translate? Thomas Kluyver (talk) 15:59, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Taroimo is http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BF%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A2     Satoimo is http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%88%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A2  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Westwind273 (talk • contribs) 07:30, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The problem with using Google Translate is that it makes the same mistake as the Wikipedia articles.  Since it thinks satoimo and taro are the same thing, it translates both as taro.  I think we need a knowledgeable person who can read Japanese.  --Westwind273 (talk) 05:34, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Taro is taroimo (Colocasia esculenta) in Japanese. Eddoe is satoimo (Colocasia antiquorum) in Japanese. I will make this correction in the article. Also note that the Japanese page for satoimo has the incorrect scientific name. It should be Colocasia antiquorum. --Westwind273 (talk) 03:04, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

text: This should have a link to Eddoe. Kortoso (talk) 20:04, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Japan section is problematic

message: Forgive me of saying a cuisine-related comment. I noticed taro-based noodles in Chinese hotpots. I don't know if it's really made from taro or not, but can anyone confirm the name of this taro-based noodle? Komitsuki (talk) 13:03, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taro noodles? 

message: Judk (talk) 14:39, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cultivation 

message: Composition                 	-          	Moisture	63-85%
Carbohydrate (mostly starch)	13-29%     	        	
Protein                     	1.4-3.0%   	        	
Fat                         	0.16-0.36% 	        	
Crude Fiber                 	0.6-1.18%  	        	
Ash                         	0.6-1.3%   	        	
Vitamin C                   	7-9 mg/100g	        	
Judk (talk) 14:53, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  composition 

message: Since in Genesis it says that God gave man all plants bearing seed as food the article does not answer the question of whether Taro is capable of producing seed or not. Can someone answer this question and then add to the article whether this root crop is capable of producing flowers that make seeds?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:C518:6C40:F816:1D9C:EAC9:D958 (talk) 03:52, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article does not answer thee question of whether Taro can produce seed. 

message: There is a lot of confusion in the article between taro and eddoe. The article starts off by saying that eddoe is a kind of taro. But this is clearly not the case. Taro is Colocasia esculenta. Eddoe is Colocasia antiquorum. They are two different things. Saying one is a kind of the other is clearly incorrect. I would point out that the two are also different in the Japanese language. Taro is "taroimo", and Eddoe is "satoimo". --Westwind273 (talk) 05:48, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taro vs Eddoe 

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message: How do I link the Dutch page?
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taro
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