According to the Oxford English Dictionary:
Colocasia, a genus of plants of the Arum family, natives of the East
Indies, and largely cultivated in warm climates for the sake of their
leaves and tuberous root-stocks, used as articles of food.
The rhizome or root of the Egyptian water-lily.
No mention if there is any western-world equivalent to this - anyone up
to trying a baked water-lily root?
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Rick Post
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