Identifier: promisingrootcro164barr (find matches)
Title: Promising root crops for the South
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Barrett, O. W. (Otis Warren), b. 1872 Cook, O. F. (Orator Fuller), 1867-1949. Agricultural history and utility of the cultivated aroids Barrett, O. W. (Otis Warren), b. 1872. Yautias, taros, and dasheens United States. Bureau of Plant Industry
Subjects: Yautia Araceae Root crops Taro
Publisher: Washington : Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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tinged with reddish purple.This is an upland variety requiring comparatively little water, whichshould be generally cultivated as a first-class table tuber for thefancy-vegetable market. STRIPED TAROS. The marblings or stripings of the petiole and the more or less pro-nounced marbling of the leaf blade in this section of true taros serveto readily distinguish the forms superficially. The shape of theblade varies from the exceedingly narrow and flat form found in avariety from Sibpur, India (S. P. I. No. 17102), to the strikinglystriped varieties from Java, like the talus belang (S. P. I. No.20954), which has pale-green petioles entirely covered with more orless irregular bands of bronze-green, while the blade itself is stronglymarbled in light and dark green patches. The talus koekoek(S. P. I. No. 20953), also of Java, has petioles nearly white, with aslight brownish narrow striping, especially on the young leaf, while 164 ireau of Plant Industry, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Plate X.
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DASHEEN VARIETIES. 27 the sinus wings are involute and the blade a bluish green shade witha weak, slightly crumpled margin. The kempol koenig (S. P. I.No. 20945), of Java, has the palish petiole covered over with minute,cross-hatched, darker green lines. The petiolar spot on the upper surface of the blade varies from ayellowish green to a pronounced purplish shade, which may be enmasse or in the form of radiating lines. The color of the roots variesfrom ivory-white to orange-yellow. In some varieties there is atendency to produce many offsets. RED TAROS. Only ten or twelve distinct sorts of red taros are included in thecollection made by the writer, though it is probable that this num-ber could be easily doubled, or perhaps trebled. However, the red orblack taros are comparatively rare and until last year were prac-tically unknown in the Western Hemisphere. The colors of the peti-ole vary from a pale reddish or maroon tinge to an almost blackcolor. Of the latter type, the kalukandala

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