The species was threatened by reduced spring flows and pollution, including sprayed herbicide along the river and introduced fish ( " Gambusia affinis " ) and plants ( " Colocasia esculenta " ).
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Commonly known as elephant's ear because of its enormous foliage, which is deeply veined and billows in breezes, Colocasia esculenta was another denizen of shady Victorian circles _ surrounded by impatiens or ferns, perhaps.
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Brent Heath of Brent & Becky's Bulbs in Gloucester, Va ., which specializes in bulbs for all seasons, said colocasias are so popular now that they can't keep them in stock.
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That's why she uses strong, linear foliage plants such as phormiums, cannas, colocasias ( elephant ears ), agapanthus and cardoons to anchor an urn with a focal point that stays prime throughout the season.
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Cocoyams that are cultivated as food crops belong to either the genus Colocasia or the genus Xanthosoma and are generally composed of a large spherical corm ( swollen underground storage stem ), from which a few large leaves emerge.
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Traditionally, it includes vegetables like okra, winter melon or ash gourd, colocasia, etc . The taste is a bit sour, and it is a dish of the South Indian states like Andhra, Tamil Nadu.
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Leafy vegetables like Fenugreek, Amaranth, Beetroot, Radish, Dill, Colocasia, Spinach, kardai and Tandulja are either cooked in a stir-fry fashion or made into a soup type preparation using buttermilk and gram flour,
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However, on Fongafale in Funafuti all pits surveyed were either too saline or very marginal for swamp taro production, although a more salt tolerant species of taro ( " Colocasia esculenta " ) was being grown in Fongafale.
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It currently contains about 5000 taxa of domestic and exotic plants from temperate and tropical regions around the world, with a particular emphasis on vascular plants of central Japan, East Asian ferns, Cycadaceae, Colocasia, and South American orchids.
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"' Taro "'( ) commonly refers to the plant " Colocasia esculenta ", the most widely cultivated species of several plants in the Araceae family which are used as vegetables for their corms, leaves, and petioles.
