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Elephant ears
Colocasia
Colocasia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to southeastern Asia and the Indian subcontinent. Some species are widely cultivated and naturalized in other tropical and subtropical regions. Common names include tarul, karkala ko ganu, elephant-ear, taro, cocoyam, dasheen, chembu, champadhumpa, shavige gadde, and eddoe. Elephant-ear and cocoyam are also used for some other large-leaved genera in the Araceae, notably Xanthosoma and Caladium. The generic name is derived from the ancient Greek...
8 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Taro
speciesColocasia esculenta
Blackstem Taro
speciesColocasia fontanesii
East-Himalayan Decorated Taro
speciesColocasia affinis
Colocasia fallax
speciesColocasia fallax
Colocasia oresbia
speciesColocasia oresbia
Colocasia lihengiae
speciesColocasia lihengiae
Colocasia menglaensis
speciesColocasia menglaensis
Colocasia mannii
speciesColocasia mannii
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.457
Garden of Health
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.145
Garden of Health (Hortus Sanitatis)
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.120
History of Rare Plants
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.451
Hortus Eystettensis
Basilius Besler · 1640 · p.368
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx — Moninckx Atlas, vol. 6 (1686)
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx · 1686 · p.38
Description of the Plants of America
Charles Plumier · 1693 · p.165
Description of the Plants of America
Charles Plumier · 1693 · p.164
Description of the Plants of America
Charles Plumier · 1693 · p.163
Description of the Plants of America
Charles Plumier · 1693 · p.162
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.303
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Colocasia in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
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 122839.