What are the plants with taro-like roots?

Taro is one of the common ingredients in our daily life, an underground fleshy corm. Yet in nature there are also many plants with taro-like roots; below let us find out just what plants they are.

1. Wild taro

The fruit of wild taro is much like the taro we usually see, only a bit larger, so people often use it as taro for food. However, this plant is poisonous all over, and the tuber is especially toxic; after people eat it by mistake, a series of reactions often occur, causing discomfort to the body.

2. Drip Guanyin

Drip Guanyin is also called giant alocasia. It looks very much like taro and is a very common plant with high ornamental value; it is a foliage plant and is often placed in people's homes. However, its sap is toxic, so be sure not to touch it casually, and even more so never eat it.

3. Arrowhead

Arrowhead generally grows in paddy fields in the south; its root looks like taro, is block-shaped, and its texture is as soft and mealy as taro. So much so that people who have never seen arrowhead will take arrowhead for taro.

4. Typhonium giganteum

The tuber of Typhonium giganteum is obovate, ovoid or ovate-elliptic, of unequal size, 2-4 cm in diameter, covered outside with small dark brown scales, with 7-8 ring-like nodes, and several fibrous roots growing around the neck.

5. Konjac

The underground tuber of konjac is oblate, large, and quite similar in appearance to the root of taro.

The roots of the above plants all look similar to taro, but some are toxic and cannot be eaten, so everyone should take care.