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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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