Scientific Name : Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott
Category : Angiosperms
Status : Alive
Habit : A small perennial herb, with tuberous globose corm. Leaves : Radical, larger, peltate, Dark green or pale-greenish-yellow, glabrous, cordate or sagittate with a large basal stem, petioles stout, sheathing. Inflorescence : Spadix Flowers : Spathes 25-40 cm long, pale-yellow or creamy-yellow, glabrous. Spadix shorter than spathes. Male flowers above, neuters in the middle, females below, spathe boat-shaped, caudate-acuminate, erect; pale yellow, wide open, spadix with a long appendage. Male anthers closely packed, stamens 3-8, ovaries 1-celled, ovules many on 5 parietal placenta, stigmas sessile. Fruit : Berries several, small, reddish-yellow or orange, angular. Flowering and fruiting Time : August - October Significance : It is extensively cultivated everywhere for its edible corms, leaves and fruits.
Specimen Information
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Common Name(s):
आळू, Cocoyam,Taro
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Synonym(s):
Alocasia dussii Dammer Alocasia illustris W.Bull Aron colocasium (L.) St.-Lag. Arum chinense L. Arum colocasia L. Arum colocasioides Desf. Arum esculentum L. Arum lividum Salisb. Arum nymphaeifolium (Vent.) Roxb. Arum peltatum Lam. Caladium acre R.Br. Caladium antiquorum (Schott) André Caladium atrovirens André Caladium colocasia (L.) W.Wight Caladium colocasioides (Desf.) Brongn. Caladium divaricatum André Caladium esculentum (L.) Vent. Caladium glycyrrhizum Fraser Caladium nigrescens André Caladium nymphaeifolium Vent. Caladium parimaense André Caladium violaceum Engl.
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Family:
Araceae
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