. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. COLLOMIA is applied they dart forward at right angles with the testa, each carrying with it a sheath of mucus, in which it for a long time remains enveloped in a membranous ; COLOCASIA (old Greek substantive
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. COLLOMIA is applied they dart forward at right angles with the testa, each carrying with it a sheath of mucus, in which it for a long time remains enveloped in a membranous ; COLOCASIA (old Greek substantive name). Ardidew. Perennial herbs with cordate-peltate Ivs., which are often handsomely colored in cultivation. Differs from Alocasia and CalaUium in floral characters: spadix ter- minating in a club-shaped or subulate appendage desti- tute of stamens. SpeciesS. Tropics. Monogr. by Engler, DC. Phaner. Monogr. 2: 490. Colocasia includes tlie plants known as Caladium es- fulentitm, which are much grown for subtropical bed- ding. O. odorata (which is an Alocasia) has very large, thick stems, which may be wintered over safely without Ivs., or at most with 1 or 2, the stems, to save space, being placed close together in boxes. C. esculenta rests during the winter and is kept under a greenhouse bench or anywhere out of the reach of frost or damp. Rich, damp ground suits both kinds. Of easy culture. Con- sult Caladium for treatment. Colocasias furnish the much-cultivated Taro of the Pacific tropics, this edible product being the large, starchy roots. From it is made the Poi of Hawaii. In Japan and other countries the tubers of Colocasias are much cultivated, and are handled and eaten much as we use potatoes (see Georgeson, 1892:81). The young Ivs. of some kinds are boiled and eaten. antiqudrum, Schott. Lvs. peltate-ovate : basal lobes half as long as the apical one, connate %-% their length, separated by a broad, triangular, obtusish sinus. India. Var. eucUdra, Schott (C
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