Good morning Pudji Ji and very Happy Teachers' Day *Alocasia* is edible, though not all the species or all var., and not throughout anytime of the year. Usually the stocks and/or leaves with petioles are collected after the monsoon and are sold in the market. Some people do not eat it while it is favourite to other people. Since leaves are collected from time to time the wild *Alocasia* plant do not get much time to grow uninterrupted. My colleagues who eat *Alocasia* inform me that the stocks do grow 5-6 ft above the ground when they are cultivated in certain region and left in the field for more than a year. In all cases leaves of these plant are shiny/polished. Non-peltate leaves with polished/shiny upper-surface tell me that those are *Alocasia*, neither *Colocasia* nor *Xanthosoma*.
Karuna Ji's plant may be *Xanthosoma* as you have suggested, but I do not know, for I do not have any literature and *Xanthosoma* is new to me as I have written that in another thread - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/indiantreepix/sHHRMo8ZpaM. Let's move to the other thread https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/indiantreepix/sHHRMo8ZpaM to avoid any confusion. Thank you very much Regards On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Pudji Widodo <[email protected]> wrote: > The leaves of both Xanthosoma & Colocasia are also peltate if they are > looked based on the the position of the petiole. But from above it can be > sagittate, ovate etc. > > It is not Alocasia because the later has stem which can be so long. Not > only inside the ground. The leaves contain a lot of oxallate crystal. It > is only used for feeding gouramy fish (Osphronemus gouramy). > Correct me if I am wrong. > > > On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 10:58 PM, surajit koley < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear Pudji Ji, >> >> As I wrote in my earlier mail, sent you minutes ago, the question is not >> if it can be *Colocasia*. The question is - why it can't be *Alocasia >> <http://apps.kew.org/herbcat/getImage.do?imageBarcode=K000291562>*? >> >> Thank you >> >> Regards >> >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Pudji Widodo <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Dear Surajit Koley Ji, >>> >>> An intramarginal veins is a vein parallel to the leaf margin. So, I >>> think your leaf is not included in Colocasia. Another reason is that your >>> leaf surface is shiny. >>> >>>> >>>> Pudji Widodo >>> Fakultas Biologi Universitas Jenderal Soedirman >>> PURWOKERTO 53122 *INDONESIA* >>> >> >> > > > -- > Pudji Widodo > Fakultas Biologi Universitas Jenderal Soedirman > PURWOKERTO 53122 *INDONESIA* > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
