[Aroid-l] Edible Alocasias

From: "Carla Kostelac" <Carla.Kostelac at mobot.org> on 2009.02.27 at 21:43:54 Dear Aroiders,   I received this message from Anne in Western Australia. Please read below and see if you can help to answer her question about Alocasias.   Thank you, everyone!   Best wishes, Carla   Carla V. Kostelac Assistant to Tom Croat & Research Specialist, Araceae Missouri Botanical Garden Box 299, St. Louis, Missouri 63116 (314) 577-5163 carla.kostelac@mobot.org Please send images to our FTP Server. ftp://garfile:garden2003@cissus.mobot.org/incoming/croat ftp://garfile:garden2003@cissus.mobot.org/outgoing/croat Hi Carla, How are you? I am from Western Australia and I have recently found some Alocasia plants being sold in a nursery. I would like to know whether all Alocasia species are edible. In my home country, Mauritius, we eat Colocasia esculenta and taro. How can I know whether the species in the store is edible? Thank you very much for any reply. I tried to email Rod, but I could not send emails to him. -- Anne           ------_=_NextPart_001_01C99924.7C61A4D6----===============5437609048233111586==

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