Root Vegetable Taro (Colocasia Esculentum) On A White Stool : (pix Sanjiv Shukla) Stock Image

Taro (Colocasia esculenta) is a tropical plant grown primarily for its edible corms, a root vegetable most commonly known as taro, kalo, Kachaloo, banda, dasheen or godere. It is the most widely cultivated species of several plants in the family Araceae that are used as vegetables for their corms, leaves, and petioles. Taro corms are a food staple in African, Oceanic, and South Asian cultures and is believed to have been one of the earliest cultivated plants.