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 ...

There are more than 100 varieties of true taro, but in the continental U.S., you’re most likely to only come across two of them: Dasheen (C. esculenta var. ...

Three varieties of taro plants Courtesy of Yanna Fishman One of their partners is Michael Carter Jr., who runs Carter Farms in the Piedmont region of Virginia, which has been in his family since 1910.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The root vegetable taro is a staple in the Pacific, but it is under threat from climate change. Now scientists are swapping lab coats for canoes to find new more resilient varieties.

Taro is entrenched at the Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge, where thousands go to see the blooming Cahaba lilies. ... There are native plants that look similar to taro, ...