I f you've ever had a creamy purple drink at a boba shop or sampled a bowl of poi alongside your kalua pork at a luau, you've tasted one of the world's first cultivated plants: taro.This starchy ...

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 ...

Though taro can flower and produce seeds like any other plant, it also reproduces by creating suckers, little plants that grow off the corm, which are a genetic clone of the original plant.

If you are interested in growing your own nutritious greens, growing taro leaves indoors can be a rewarding experience ...

As one of the world’s oldest cultivated plants, taro sometimes goes by different names including arbi, dasheen, and eddoe. Different varieties can be used interchangeably and bring the same ...

A study (DOI: 10.48130/tp-0024-0025) published in Tropical Plants on 11 September 2024, promotes the utilization of germplasm resources, aiding in the breeding of taro varieties that meet the ...

Entries may only be traditional Hawaiian kalo varieties found in “Bulletin 84: Taro Varieties in Hawaii,” a catalog of taro varieties in Hawaii authored 1939.