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Xanthosoma
Xanthosoma roseum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): onocots
!rder: Alismatales
Family: Araceae
"u#family: Aroideae
$ri#e: %aladieae
&enus: Xanthosoma
Species
About 50; see text
Xanthosoma is a genus of a#out ' species of tropical and su#tropical arums in theflo*ering plant family, Araceae, all native to tropical America+ "everal species are gro*n
for their starchy corms, an important food staple of tropical regions, kno*n variously as
malanga, new cocoyam, tannia, tannier, yautía, macabo, taioba, dasheen, quequisque and ‘ape+ any other species (including especially X. roseum) are utilied as ornamental
plants, and in popular horticultural literature are kno*n as -ape or elephant ear (from the
purported resem#lance of the leaf to an elephant.s ear ), although the latter name issometimes also applied to mem#ers *ith similar appearance and uses in the closely related
genera of Caladium, Colocasia (i+e+, taro), and Alocasia+
$he leaves of most Xanthosoma species are /0 cm long, sagittate (arro*headshaped)
or su#divided into 1 or as many as 23 segments+ 4nlike the leaves of Colocasia, those of Xanthosoma are usually not peltate 5the upper vnotch e6tends in to the point of
attachment of the leaf petiole to the #lade+
Pollination biology
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;omestication of Xanthosoma species (especially X. sagittifolium #ut also X. atrovirens, X.
violaceum, X. maffaffa, and others) is thought to have originated in northern lo*land "outhAmerica then spread to the Antilles and esoamerica+ $oday Xanthosoma is still gro*n in
all those regions #ut is especially popular in %u#a and Puerto 8ico, *here it is used in
Alcapurrias+
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autia, %ocoyam,Iddo, %oco, "atoimo, Japanese Potatoes
!rigin: "outh America
$he anthosoma species are plants of thetropical rain forest and, although in their
natural ha#itat they gro* under the forest
canopy, under cultivation they are usuallyso*n *ith full e6posure to sunlight+ $hey
reHuire *elldrained soils and do not tolerate
the permanent presence of *ater+ $he usa#le parts are the su#terranean tu#erous stems
*hich have a nutritional value compara#le to
the potato and are pro#a#ly easier to digest+ Asecondary use is of consumption of the young
leaves, similar to spinach+ eafy species ofanthosoma not gro*n for tu#ers are called
#elem#e and calalous+ $here are actually t*odifferent malangas: alanga #lanca
(anthosoma sagittifolium), considered the
true malanga, *hich gro*s on dry land+ $heother is malanga amarillo (%olocasia
esculenta) *hich gro*s in *et #oglike areas+
anthosoma al#o
marginata+ 9ariegated
$hai variety *ith
s*irled leaves
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&enerally, malanga resem#les dasheen (taro)
and the elephantear plant *ith large green
leaves a#out 0 feet *ide #y 0 2L0 feet long+$he malanga plant may attain a height of '
feet or more+ Idi#le tu#ers (cormels) areformed in the soil at the #ase of the plant+ Acentral large tu#er (corm) is formed, *ith a
cluster of cormels, grayish #ro*n to #lack
lateral tu#ers, around it+ alanga are a#out
the sie and shape of a regular *hite potato7they look a little like an overgro*n gladiola
#ul#, #ecause the outside skin of the malanga
is #ro*n and some*hat hairy+
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anthosoma al#o
marginata+ 9ariegated$hai variety *ith
s*irled leaves
alanga
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