Taro (Colocasia esculenta) is part of a family of plants with edible underground stems, known as corms. There are a number of different varieties of taro around the world, with each with their own ...

Taro is a root ... the part of the plant we eat that is grown underground (the leaves and leaf-stems are edible, too) is not the roots, but rather the corms and cormels. There are more than ...

Colocasia, or Elephant Ear plants, are very remarkable ... in group plantings in containers or planted in the ground. My giant Taro, elephant ears, are established in a whiskey barrel with ...

Even during the coldest time of the year, gardener Suky Sung Lee enjoys her taro ... though the plant is dormant in winter, it may still be planted now. You can find starter corms in the produce ...

It didn’t take long before the indigenous tribes of our region adopted the plant into their agricultural practices and diet, and for good reason: taro root is a nutritious food crop. In comparison ...

In fact, the root of the plant isn’t a root at all, but an underground stem called a corm. Those corms can vary in color from creamy speckled white to yellow, red, and green, though purple taro ...

The 50-pound corm, which is the root of a taro plant, was grown on Aina ‘Ahiu Farm in Hawaii Island’s South Kona district and could possibly be the largest on record, West Hawaii Today ...