EPPO Global Database

Alocasia macrorrhizos(ALDMA)

Overview
Code created in: 2002-07-18

Basic information
  • EPPO Code: ALDMA
  • Preferred name: Alocasia macrorrhizos
  • Authority: (Linnaeus) G. Don

Notes

Malesia (eastern), New Guinea, Australia. A wild species, resembling the edible taro, but toxic. Also cultivated as an ornamental. Introduced in India, Indochina, Malesia (western), China, Africa (Guinée, Sudan), Central and South America


Other scientific names
Name Authority
Alocasia indica (Loureiro) Spach
Alocasia plumbea van Houtte
Colocasia indica (Loureiro) Kunth

Common names
Name
Language
rè yà hǎi yù Chinese
热亚海芋 Chinese
alocasie Dutch
reuzentaro Dutch
giant alocasia English
giant elephant's ear English
giant taro English
pai English
upright elephant ear English
cunjevoi English (AU)
alocasie French
alocasie à grandes racines French
alocasie à grosse racine French
oreille d'éléphant French
songe blanc French
songe caraïbe French
songe sauvage French
taro géant French
Alokasie German
indische Tropenwurz German
riesenblättrige Pfeilblatt German
Riesentaro German
orecchie di elefante Italian
kuwazuimo Japanese
クワズイモ Japanese
inhame-assú Portuguese
inhame-gigante Portuguese
inhame-vermelho Portuguese
orelha-de-elefante-gigante Portuguese
taro Portuguese
алоказия крупнокорневищная Russian
alokasia Swedish