Colocassia esculanta


Chuukese name: Woot

English name: Soft taro(Sweet Taro)

Kosraen name: Kutak

Pohnpeian name: Sawa

Yapese name: Mal

Location collected: COM Agriculture field

Date collected: Deccember 02, 1998

Collected by: BN

Vegetative description: Ovate leaf shapes, Truncate leaf tips, Entire leaf margins, leaf arrangemnet is palmately compound in venation.

Floral description: None

Seed or fruit description (optional): Underground stem which has a single taproots that are edible like carrots, onoin and so forth. The roots picture not avialable to be shown but it has a dark brown in color.

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