Colocasia esculenta var. esculenta (taro (tuberous, cultivation origin))

Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott (1832)
Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott var. esculenta (Hassk. 1848) 

Tuberous, cultivated, with many many forms. 
After processing to remove the plentiful oxalate crystals throughout the tuber, then edible and popular.
As well, many many ornamental garden forms, which may have minor tubers, but the focus is on the ornamental appearance not on the eating of the insignificant minor tuber which may have excessive oxalate crystals in it making it inedible even after processing – in other words unfit for processing and eating, fit for ornamental uses.

Cultivated in many farms and gardens, but in this continent this variety and its many many cultivated forms come from overseas origins.

( Confer with Australian indigenous taro: Colocasia esculenta var. aquatilis Hassk. (1848) ) .
( Here in NatureMapr: https://naturemapr.org/species/24725 ) .

Botanical Scholarly Literature References:  

• Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) and Australian Plant Census (APC) (2025):
Council of the Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH):
Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott var. esculenta (Hassk. 1848) → https://id.biodiversity.org.au/name/apni/209438/api/apni-format 
Colocasia esculenta ... → https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/search/names?product=APNI&tree.id=&name=Colocasia+esculenta&inc._scientific=&inc.scientific=on&inc._cultivar=&inc._other=&max=100&display=&search=true
Viewed: 2025 June 10th .

• Flora of NSW online PlantNet:
PlantNET (The NSW Plant Information Network System).
Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott → https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Colocasia~esculenta
Quotation: "
Occasionally naturalised in open marshy places; coastal districts north from Wyong.
Native of Qld, N.T., W.A., Indomalesia to Japan & Pac.Is.
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Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, Sydney.
Viewed: 2025 June 10th .

• Western Australian Herbarium (1998–).
Florabase—the Western Australian flora.
Colocasia taxa profiles' pages : → https://florabase.dbca.wa.gov.au/search/quick?q=Colocasia 
Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott profile page: → https://florabase.dbca.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/1044 
Colocasia esculenta var. aquatilis Hassk. profile page: → https://florabase.dbca.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/33000 
Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott var. esculenta profile page: → https://florabase.dbca.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/32999
Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
https://florabase.dbca.wa.gov.au/
Viewed: 2025 June 10th .

• Zich Frank A., Bernie P. M. Hyland, Trevor Whiffin, Raelee A. Kerrigan (2020) 
Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants information system and botanical matrix identification key - edition 8 ('RFK 8'): 
Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott fact sheet: → https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/entities/Colocasia_esculenta.htm 
Main site web page: → https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/
Viewed: 2025 June 10th .

• Northern Territory Herbarium (2015–)
FloraNT Northern Territory Flora Online
Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott fact sheet: → https://eflora.nt.gov.au/factsheet?id=309
Department of Land Resource Management .
http://eflora.nt.gov.au
Viewed: 2025 June 10th . 

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