EPPO Global Database

• EPPO Code: CXSES
• Preferred name: Colocasia esculenta
• Authority: (Linnaeus) Schott

Himalayas, India, Bangladesh, Indochina (Myanmar, Thailand, Laos), Malesia (Malaya, Sumatra), China (including Taiwan). Cultivated for its edible tubers. Introduced in western and northern Mediterranean, Indochina (Cambodia, Vietnam), Malesia (Java, Sulawesi), Japan, Korea, West Africa (several countries from Sénégal to Cameroon), Central Africa (from Sudan to Zimbabwe), Madagascar, USA, Central America, Caribbean, South America (except southern cone), New Guinea, Australia (Western, Queensland, New South Wales)

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