Eddoe

Most upland varieties (dasheen and eddoe) mature quicker than the paddy-grown taro, in 180 - 120 days versus 240 - 300 days. ❋ Unknown (1993)

There are about 1000 recognised cultivars, but these fall mainly into two groups: the eddoe type of taro, which has a relatively small corm surrounded by large well-developed cormels (and 42 chromosomes), and the dasheen, which has a large central corm and numerous but small cormels arising from its surface (and 28 chromosomes). ❋ Unknown (1987)

The improvement of cultivation methods in dasheen and eddoe (Colocasia esculenta) growing in Trinidad. ❋ Unknown (1987)

Bari (W. Afr.); Chinese eddoe (W.l.); Chinese sayer (Guyana); Chonque (Col.); ❋ Unknown (1987)

The dasheen type (C. esculenta var. esculenta) has higher water requirements than the eddoe type (C. esculenta var. antiquorum), and the latter is often grown in dry land culture as a plantation crop (eg in rotation with sugar cane in some Caribbean territories), where it is planted as cormels or pieces of corm in fields prepared by ridging, or as an intercrop in peasant agriculture. ❋ Unknown (1987)

Tayoba (Sp.); W.ite eddoe (Barb.); Ya (China); Ya br (W. Afr.); Yu-tao ❋ Unknown (1987)

Maduma (Tanz.); Mafaffa, Malanga (y) '(Ant.); Mangareto (Braz.); Nut eddoe ❋ Unknown (1987)

Abalong, Amalong (Philipp.); Arvi (Ind.); Barbados eddoe (W.l.); ❋ Unknown (1987)

Both dasheen and eddoe type corms can be kept in good condition for upwards of 4 weeks in the tropics: thus dasheens with tops attached and minimal wounding, and good quality eddoes, can be stored in pits dug in well-drained soil and lined with leaves, and well-shaded, on trays or in small heaps under houses, or in cellars or barns. ❋ Unknown (1987)

The texture is like a good soft eddoe but it has its distinct taste. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The two types of C. esculenta are frequently referred to as separate species in the literature, C. antiquorum and C. esculenta, but it is more generally accepted that the taros are a polymorphic species, C. esculenta, and under this classification the eddoe is C. esculenta var. antiquorum (syn. ❋ Unknown (1987)

If you were walking [down the street] [with me] and people saw you with me, they would [think your cool]. ❋ Eddo* (2004)

1. "[Wanna fight]?" " Yeah [bring it on]!" "Go join the army!" "Now that is soo eddo-ish". 2. You're walking down the street and see someone [head banging] to Metallica and Megadeth. Now that is eddo-ish. ❋ Amy (2005)