This Taro has edible leaves, but not much corm, it is a very beautiful plant, and is quite unusual in color for a Taro, --the leaves must...Read More be boiled in salty water for at least 20 min., it has a fairly good flavor, and would make a good luau leaf plant, the leaves are medium soft when cooked, harvest the leaf at the top of the stem for cooking, as the petiole has much more of the irritating calcium crystals than the leaf. --also don't harvest the overly mature leaves of this one, as they develop much more calcium crystals also[ and makes for overly long cooking times to make it edible] .
This Taro spreds by short runners, 4 to 10 inches long, and could become invasive in warm wet areas.
This Taro has edible leaves, but not much corm, it is a very beautiful plant, and is quite unusual in color for a Taro, --the leaves must...Read More