Re: [Aroid-l] Edible Alocasias

From: "mossytrail" <mossytrail at hctc.com> on 2009.03.02 at 01:38:44(19150) I know that Alocasia macrorrhizos is/was a food crop in some Pacific Island nations. In Hawaii, it was called `ape (pronounced "ah-pay"); in Pohnpei, they say they no longer eat eat it, but used to before WWII -- they call it "wild taro," to distinguish it from the currently cultivated taros (Colocasia and Cyrtosperma). +More Jason Hernandez Naturalist-at-Large > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:43:54 -0600 > From: "Carla Kostelac" > Subject: [Aroid-l] Edible Alocasias > To: > Message-ID: > > <471E2B0E09E14643942D99FC6AD54E6601F990FA@MBGMail01.mobot. > org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > 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 > _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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