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Taro (Olhu ala)

Colocasia esculenta

Notes:

a delicious tuber crop... although its habitat is being lost day by day....

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Kakahiaka
Kakahiaka 11 years ago

Looks like loi kalo. That's what we call our wetland taro patches here in Hawaii. We kui or mash the corms and make poi as well as eat the leaves and stems. What do you folks do with it?

Nitch
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Nitch

Maldives

Spotted on Dec 25, 2010
Submitted on Mar 26, 2012

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