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  Re: [Aroid-l] Alocasia robusta & Colocasia gigantea
From: Peter Matthews pjm at gol.com> on 2005.05.24 at 02:54:26(12955)
Title: Re: [Aroid-l] Alocasia robusta & Colocasia
gigantea

Thanks for asking...

Colocasia esculenta (sat-imo in japanese) is the main species
grown, usually for the corms, but some cultivars are also used as stem
vegetables.

Colocasia gigantea (hasu-imo in Japanese) is only grown as a stem
vegetable, with an almost completely non-acrid petiole (can be peeled
and then sliced thinly and eaten as a vinegared pickle).

A single clump of C. gigantea here and there is common in home
gardens, but there are also many commercial producers with entire
fields of the plant, in warmer southern areas.

Both species are summer crops here.

Peter

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