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Colocasia esculenta
The elephant-ear starch of the wet tropics — a cooked corm and a cooked green, and a mouthful of needles if you skip the heat.
Flavor
Cooked corm is mild, nutty, a little sticky. Leaf is spinach with more spine, once cooked enough.
In favor
A true wet-bed calorie crop in heat
Days to harvest
7–12 months in heat for a staple corm
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