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Taro
Colocasia esculenta
Colocasia esculenta is a tropical plant grown primarily for it's edible corms, the root vegetables most commonly known as taro. It is believed to be one of the earliest cultivated plants. Linnaeus originally described two species which are now known as Colocasia esculenta and Colocasia antiquorum of the cultivated plants that are known by many names including eddoes, dasheen, taro and madumbi, but many later botanists consider them all to be members of a single, very...
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.457
The Plants of Egypt
Prospero Alpini · 1592 · p.98
Compendium of Materia Medica: Illustrated Volume Middle of Middle
李時珍 · 1596 · p.107
History of Rare Plants
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.451
Collected Illustrations of the Three Realms (Volume 104)
王圻, 王思義 · 1609 · p.110
Hokusai Manga (北斎漫画), Vol. 1
Katsushika Hokusai · 1814 · p.20
Hokusai Manga (北斎漫画), Vol. 3
Katsushika Hokusai · 1815 · p.34
Illustrated Investigation of the Names and Realities of Plants, Volume 4
吳其濬 · 1848 · p.8
Complete Treatise on Agricultural Administration
Xu Guangqi · 1909 · p.824
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 122835.