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Colocasia esculenta and List of root vegetables

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Difference between Colocasia esculenta and List of root vegetables

Colocasia esculenta vs. List of root vegetables

Colocasia esculenta is a tropical plant grown primarily for its edible corms, the root vegetables most commonly known as taro. Root vegetables are plant roots and tubers eaten by humans as food.

Similarities between Colocasia esculenta and List of root vegetables

Colocasia esculenta and List of root vegetables have 22 things in common (in Unionpedia): Cassava, Cereal, Colocasia esculenta, Corm, Dioscorea, Eddoe, Fufu, Garlic, Nelumbo nucifera, Oceania, Onion, Poi (food), Potato, Rhizome, Staple food, Starch, Sugar, Sweet potato, Tuber, West Africa, Xanthosoma, Yam (vegetable).

Cassava

Manihot esculenta, commonly called cassava, manioc, yuca, mandioca and Brazilian arrowroot, is a woody shrub native to South America of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae.

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Cereal

A cereal is any edible components of the grain (botanically, a type of fruit called a caryopsis) of cultivated grass, composed of the endosperm, germ, and bran.

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Colocasia esculenta

Colocasia esculenta is a tropical plant grown primarily for its edible corms, the root vegetables most commonly known as taro.

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Corm

A corm, bulbo-tuber, or bulbotuber is a short, vertical, swollen underground plant stem that serves as a storage organ used by some plants to survive winter or other adverse conditions such as summer drought and heat (perennation).

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Dioscorea

Dioscorea is a genus of over 600 species of flowering plants in the family Dioscoreaceae, native throughout the tropical and warm temperate regions of the world.

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Eddoe

Eddoe or eddo is a tropical vegetable often considered identifiable as the species Colocasia antiquorum, closely related to taro (dasheen, Colocasia esculenta), which is primarily used for its thickened stems (corms).

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Fufu

Fufu (variants of the name include foofoo, fufuo, foufou) is a staple food common in many countries in Africa such as Ghana, Liberia and Nigeria.

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Garlic

Garlic (Allium sativum) is a species in the onion genus, Allium.

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Nelumbo nucifera

Nelumbo nucifera, also known as Indian lotus, sacred lotus, bean of India, Egyptian bean or simply lotus, is one of two extant species of aquatic plant in the family Nelumbonaceae.

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Oceania

Oceania is a geographic region comprising Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia and Australasia.

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Onion

The onion (Allium cepa L., from Latin cepa "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium.

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Poi (food)

Poi is primarily the traditional staple food in native cuisine of Hawaii, made from the underground plant stem or corm of the taro plant (known in Hawaiian as kalo).

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Potato

The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial nightshade Solanum tuberosum.

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Rhizome

In botany and dendrology, a rhizome (from script "mass of roots", from rhizóō "cause to strike root") is a modified subterranean stem of a plant that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes.

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Staple food

A staple food, or simply a staple, is a food that is eaten routinely and in such quantities that it constitutes a dominant portion of a standard diet for a given people, supplying a large fraction of energy needs and generally forming a significant proportion of the intake of other nutrients as well.

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Starch

Starch or amylum is a polymeric carbohydrate consisting of a large number of glucose units joined by glycosidic bonds.

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Sugar

Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food.

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Sweet potato

The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the bindweed or morning glory family, Convolvulaceae.

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Tuber

Tubers are enlarged structures in some plant species used as storage organs for nutrients.

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West Africa

West Africa, also called Western Africa and the West of Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa.

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Xanthosoma

Xanthosoma is a genus of flowering plants in the arum family, Araceae.

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Yam (vegetable)

Yam is the common name for some plant species in the genus Dioscorea (family Dioscoreaceae) that form edible tubers.

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Colocasia esculenta and List of root vegetables Comparison

Colocasia esculenta has 291 relations, while List of root vegetables has 118. As they have in common 22, the Jaccard index is 5.38% = 22 / (291 + 118).

References

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