Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name
Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.
Colocasia esculenta
Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.
(L.) Schott
Common names
Taro, Wild Taro, Arum-Lily Potatoes, Coco yam, Donkey's Ear, Katchu, Native Cabbage, Taro, Cocoyam, Dasheen, Wild taro, Eddo, Elephant's ear, cocoyam, dasheen, eddo, elephant's-ear, elephant-ear
Names in other languages (101)/, Alti kachu, Amadumbe, Bore, Cará-de-Lama, Chamadumpa, Chamagadda, Chamakura, Chempakizhanna, Chou de Chine, Colocase comestible, Colocase comestible, Arum comestible, Colocase comestible, Songe, Arum, Songe blanc, Songe Caraïbe, Songe gris, Songe noir, Dachine, Elefantøre, Għorgħar, Għorgħas, Idumbe, Inhame-Roxo, Jongal Saaru, Kachu, Khoai sọ, Kolokázie jedlá, Kukau, Madumbe, Mafafa, Mafafa morada, Majimbi, Malanga, Malangón, Olifantsoor, Sempu, Shamakkilangu, Songe Caraïbe, Songe blanc, Songe gris, Songe noir, Talas, Taò, Yautía coco, Zehrwurzel, alcocaz, amayun, arum, colocasia, colocasie, daun keladi, elephant's ear, gölevez, inhame, inhame-branco, inhame-da-costa, inhame-da-África, inhame-da-índia, inhame-imperial, inhame-preto, kalo, kolokazja jadalna, kolokázia jedlá, pituca, sato-imo, tai, taioba, taioba-de-São-Tomé, taro, fakea, matietie, taro, tago, tayoba, tinhorão-preto, toran, vihannestaaro, Κολοκασία η Εδώδιμος, Колоказия съедобная, Таро, अरबी, अरवी, आलुक़ाम, आलूकी, आलूपम, कचालू, कच्छी, चेम्पू, पेचकी, रान आलू, পান, ಕೆಸವೆದಂತು, ಕೇಶವನಗದ್ದೆ, ತೇವು, කිරි අල, บอนเขียว, บอนใบดำ, เผือก, ᱥᱟᱹᱨᱩ, アカメイモ, サトイモ, トウノイモ, ヤマサトイモ, 檳榔芋, 紫芋, 芋, 里芋, 토란
Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).
Plantae
Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.
Tracheophyta
Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).
Liliopsida
Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).
Alismatales
Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).
Araceae
Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.
Colocasia
Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.
esculenta
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.
species
Reference species
Colocasia esculenta
Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.
accepted name

Photos and conservation status

IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.
Least concern (LC)
Source: IUCN Red List via GBIF, queried on 2026-10-12 18:07.
Photo of Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott
Photo: Texas Bird Family · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott
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Photo of Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott
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Photo of Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott
Photo: Tia Offner · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott
Photo: Francisca Wu · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott
Photo: capacoscar · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-12 18:07.

Interacciones documentadas

GloBI says it is documented somewhere in the world. Biolitica answers whether it could happen here.

A documented interaction means it was recorded somewhere in the world. It does not mean it occurs here.

Types shown: 9 of 9 is a host of × interacts with × is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of × is eaten by × co-occurs ecologically with × is visited by × has its flowers visited by × is adjacent to × has as a pathogen ×

Blocks that do not sit under a navigation concept heading keep the source's own term: no navigation concept has been assigned to them yet.

is a host of 138 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. In the source ontology symbiosis covers mutualism, commensalism and parasitism alike, so this block holds attackers and allies side by side.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Taro Leaf Blight Phytophthora colocasiae Peronosporaceae is a host of 47 not compared
Cladosporium colocasiae Mycosphaerellaceae is a host of 23 not compared
Agroathelia rolfsii Amylocorticiaceae is a host of 19 not compared
Rapid ohia death/ohia wilt Ceratocystis fimbriata Ceratocystidaceae is a host of 17 no location
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interacts with 27 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Phorytocarpais americanus Parasitidae interacts with 7 not compared
Mite Macrocheles peniculatus Macrochelidae interacts with 4 not compared
Roseate Skimmer Orthemis ferruginea Libellulidae interacts with 2 not compared
Fuscuropoda Uropodidae interacts with 2 not compared Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
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is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 22 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Rhizophagus manihotis Glomeraceae is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 2 not compared
Funneliformis fragilistratus Glomeraceae is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 1 not compared
Rhizoglomus vesiculiferum Glomeraceae is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 1 not compared
Scutellospora projecturata Gigasporaceae is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 1 not compared
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is eaten by 13 organisms

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Leafhopper Tarophagus colocasiae Delphacidae is eaten by 3 no location
Pine Hawk-moth Sphinx pinastri Sphingidae is eaten by 2 no location
taro planthopper Tarophagus persephone Delphacidae is eaten by 1 no location
Asian Cotton Leafworm Spodoptera litura Noctuidae is eaten by 1 not compared
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co-occurs ecologically with 2 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Rhizophagus manihotis Glomeraceae co-occurs ecologically with 1 not compared
Funneliformis caledonium Glomeraceae co-occurs ecologically with 1 not compared
Showing 2 of 2, by number of studies

is visited by 2 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Oriental fruit fly Bactrocera dorsalis Tephritidae is visited by 1 not compared
Grey Pansy Junonia atlites Nymphalidae is visited by 1 not compared
Showing 2 of 2, by number of studies

Flower visit

has its flowers visited by 2 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. Visiting a flower is not pollinating it. «Pollinates» is a different term and a different block, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
White-tailed Bumblebee Bombus lucorum Apidae has its flowers visited by 2 not compared
Oriental fruit fly Bactrocera dorsalis Tephritidae has its flowers visited by 1 not compared
Showing 2 of 2, by number of studies

is adjacent to 1 organism

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Melon aphid Aphis gossypii Aphididae is adjacent to 7 no location
Showing 1 of 1, by number of studies

has as a pathogen 1 organism

This term does declare that the organism harms this species. It is a narrow block, and it cannot be the only one that is read: the most frequent term in the catalogue is the one above, which declares no harm, so much of what a reader would call a pest arrives there instead.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Pectobacterium carotovorum subsp. carotovorum Pectobacteriaceae has as a pathogen 1 not compared
Showing 1 of 1, by number of studies

Acompañantes documentados

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Documented uses and recommendations

Uses and recommendations that a source documents for this species beside a crop, each in its own context. They are the source's statements, not traits of the species and not Biolítica's recommendations, and none of them is a relation between two species.

Among the sources you can read, none documents a use or recommendation of this species beside a crop.