Scientific Name: Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott
Family: Araceae (Arum Family)
Vernacular name: Chembu,
Seppankizhangu, Madantha (Malayalam)
Tribal name: Kolli
thalu (Paniya), Thalu (Kuruma), Henchichebu (Kattunaikka)
Habit: Herb
Habitat: This species
usually grows in wet fields and near the banks of ponds and streams. Waterlogged
ditches and streamside
Distribution: Pantropical
Tribal consumers:
Paniya, Kuruma, Kattunaikka
Parts Used: Tender
Leaf, Petiole (After cooking)
Seasonal Availability:
June-January
Key identification features: Herbs
with stoloniferous rhizomes. Leaves few to many, peltate, ovate to sagittate.
Flowers small, with a stout peduncle, yellow spathe, and cylindrical spadix.
Male and female flowers on separate parts of the spadix, with fruit as an
aggregate of globose berries.
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