[Aroid-l] Edible Alocasias

From: "Carla Kostelac" <Carla.Kostelac at mobot.org> on 2009.02.27 at 21:43:54(19144) 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 HTML +More 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----==============T37609048233111586=

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