Florida Nursery Plant Sheets Puerto Rican “Uplands” Taro: Colcasia esculenta
Common Names: Taro, dasheen, cocoyam, eddo
Mature taro plants reach 3-6 feet tall and wide. The leaves themselves can grow up to 3 feet in size. At the base of the plant is one main tuber, which stores nutrients to last the plant through the winter. Fibrous roots called corms grow from this tuber, as do several smaller tubers.
Our variety of taro comes from Cody Cove Farm in Polk County, FL.
From their website: “Grown in normal garden soil with irrigation, we can harvest 5-7 pounds of corms per plant reliably in a roughly 7 month growing window. Plants produce one large central corm and a good number of side cormels. Our best results in Central Florida have been planting in the last weeks of February or early March. Later plantings seem to have diminishing returns.”