By Amy Grant If you have been to the West Indies, or Florida for that matter, you may have encountered something called dasheen. You probably have already heard of dasheen, just with a different name: taro. Read on for additional interesting dasheen plant info, including what is dasheen good for and how to grow dasheen. Dasheen Plant Info Dasheen (Colocasia esculenta), as mentioned, is a type of taro. Taro plants fall into two main camps. The wetland taros, which you may have encountered on a trip to Hawaii in the form of Polynesian poi, and the upland taros, or dasheens, which produce a multitude of eddos (another name for taro) that are used like potatoes and an edible mammy. Growing dasheen plants are often called “elephant ears” due to the shape and size of the plant leaves. Dasheen is a wetland, herbaceous perennial with huge heart-shaped leaves, 2-3 feet long
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