Help me identify this plant

[Medicine Woman]

Is this Taro Plant? Also…while we at it maybe give me similar ideas for a permanent survival garden.

 

[Medicine Woman]

My sister cooked a dish once that I ate which her deceased FIL had grown. I really think this is it.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I dunno...but maybe. I found this image:

taro | Description, Plant, Root, Edible, Poisonous, & Facts

taro, (Colocasia esculenta), also called eddo or dasheen, herbaceous plant of the arum family (Araceae) and its edible rootlike corm. Taro is probably native to southeastern Asia, whence it spread to Pacific islands and became a staple crop. It is cultivated for its large, starchy, spherical...

www.britannica.com

 

[Medicine Woman]

I will ask if I can dig some up and see what the root looks like. I know the old man farmed there. If I am correct I will dig up a lot…cook some and plant some. Apparently it’s very healthy and won’t do the damage of potatoes. My godchild’s husband claims people use it as baby food in Cuba.