Information: - Alocasia is a genus of broad-leaved rhizomatous or tuberous perennials from the family Araceae. There are 79 species native to tropical and subtropical Asia to Eastern Australia, and widely cultivated elsewhere. - Taro commonly refers to the plant "Colocasia esculenta", the most widely cultivated species of several plants in the Araceae family which are used as vegetables for their corms, leaves, and petioles. Thus, this article describes the "dasheen" form of taro; another variety of taro is known as eddoe or "Colocasia antiquorum". Other species of taro include giant taro ("Alocasia macrorrhizos"), swamp taro ("Cyrtosperma merkusii"), and arrowleaf elephant's ear ("Xanthosoma sagittifolium"). - Colocasia esculenta is a tropical plant grown primarily for its edible corms, the root vegetables most commonly known as taro. It is believed to be one of the earliest cultivated plants. Linnaeus originally described two species which are now known as "Colocasia esculenta" and "Colocasia antiquorum" of the cultivated plants that are known by many names including eddoes, dasheen, taro, but many later botanists consider them all to be members of a single, very variable species, the correct name for which is "Colocasia esculenta". - Eddoe or Eddo is a tropical vegetable often considered identifiable as the species Colocasia antiquorum , closely related to taro ( dasheen , Colocasia esculenta ) , which is primarily used for its thickened stems ( corms ) . It has smaller corms than taro , and in all but the best cultivars there is an acrid taste that requires careful cooking . The young leaves can also be cooked and eaten , but ( unlike taro ) they have a somewhat acrid taste . Eddoes appear to have been developed as a crop in China and Japan and introduced from there to the West Indies where they are sometimes called '' Chinese eddoes '' . They grow best in rich loam soil with good drainage , but they can be grown in poorer soil , in drier climates , and in cooler temperatures than taro . Eddoes are also called malangas in Spanish - speaking areas , but that name is also used for other plants of the Araceae family , including tannia ( Xanthosoma spp . ) . Eddoe is known as arvi or arbi in Urdu and Hindi and kochur mukhi in Bengali in South Asia . And chembb or Chembu in Malayalam . Pindalu in Nepali . Eddoes make part of the generic classification cara or inhame of the Portuguese language which , beside taro , also includes root vegetables of the genera Alocasia and Dioscorea . They are the most commonly eaten inhames / caras in the states of Sao Paulo , Rio de Janeiro and Espirito Santo , as well as surrounding regions of all . They are also fairly common in Northeastern Brazil , where they might be called batata ( literally '' potato '' ) , but less so than true yams of the genus Colocasia . According to Brazilian folk knowledge , the eddoes most appropriate to be cooked are those that are more deeply pink , or at least pinkish lavender , in the area where the leaves were cut . - Xanthosoma sagittifolium, the arrowleaf elephant ear or arrowleaf elephant's ear, is a species of tropical flowering plant in the genus "Xanthosoma", which produces an edible, starchy corm. Cultivars with purple stems or leaves are also variously called blue taro, purple taro, purplestem tannia, and purple elephant's ear among others. - Colocasia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to southeastern Asia and the Indian subcontinent. Some species are widely cultivated and naturalized in other tropical and subtropical regions. Common names include tarul, karkala ko ganu, elephant-ear, taro, cocoyam, dasheen, chembu, champadhumpa, shavige gadde, and eddoe. Elephant-ear and cocoyam are also used for some other large-leaved genera in the Araceae, notably "Xanthosoma" and "Caladium". The generic name is derived from the ancient Greek word "kolokasion", which in the Greek botanist Dioscorides (1st century AD) meant the edible roots of both "Colocasia esculenta" and "Nelumbo nucifera". It is thought that the edible roots of "Colocasia esculenta" have been cultivated in Asia for more than ten thousand years. The species "Colocasia esculenta" is an invasive species in wetlands along the American Gulf coast, where it threatens to displace native wetland plants. - In everyday usage, a vegetable is any part of a plant that is consumed by humans as food as part of a savory meal. The term "vegetable" is somewhat arbitrary, and largely defined through culinary and cultural tradition. It normally excludes other food derived from plants such as fruits, nuts, and cereal grains, but includes seeds such as pulses. The original meaning of the word "vegetable", still used in biology, was to describe all types of plant, as in the terms "vegetable kingdom" and "vegetable matter". - Alocasia macrorrhizos is a species of flowering plant in the arum family, Araceae, that it is native to rainforests from Malaysia to Queensland and has long been cultivated on many Pacific islands and elsewhere in the tropics. Common names include giant taro, ape, giant alocasia and pai. In Australia it is known as the cunjevoi (although that term also refers to a marine animal). - The Araceae are a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants in which flowers are borne on a type of inflorescence called a spadix. The spadix is usually accompanied by, and sometimes partially enclosed in, a spathe or leaf-like bract. Also known as the arum family, members are often colloquially known as aroids. This family of 114 genera and about 3750 known species is most diverse in the New World tropics, although also distributed in the Old World tropics and northern temperate regions. What entity does 'eddoe' has the relation 'taxon rank' with?
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variety