Good morning Garg Sir This is edible arum and a good number of people likes it. But unlike what had been recorded in "Bengal Plants<http://ia600604.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?id=mobot31753000237419&itemPath=%2F32%2Fitems%2Fmobot31753000237419&server=ia600604.us.archive.org&page=n452_w1150.jpg>", these days, it is not cultivated locally. It grows on its own, with scattered distribution all over Hooghly and locally known as MAN-KOCHU. Some people collect it from rural natural habitat to satisfy urban palates.
You may like to find the details of various *Alocasia* described in F. I. - - http://ia700607.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?id=mobot31753000967882&itemPath=%2F18%2Fitems%2Fmobot31753000967882&server=ia700607.us.archive.org&page=n503_w1150.jpg - http://ia700607.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?id=mobot31753000967882&itemPath=%2F18%2Fitems%2Fmobot31753000967882&server=ia700607.us.archive.org&page=n504_w1150.jpg - http://ia700607.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?id=mobot31753000967882&itemPath=%2F18%2Fitems%2Fmobot31753000967882&server=ia700607.us.archive.org&page=n505_w1150.jpg - http://ia700607.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?id=mobot31753000967882&itemPath=%2F18%2Fitems%2Fmobot31753000967882&server=ia700607.us.archive.org&page=n506_w1150.jpg Thank you, Regards, surajit On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 3:25 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: surajit koley <[email protected]> > Date: 18 January 2013 23:34 > Subject: [efloraofindia:144237] Hooghly Today : Alocasia indica Schott > To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> > > > Sir, > > This seems to be the *Alocasia indica* Schott of "Bengal > Plants<http://ia600604.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?id=mobot31753000237419&itemPath=%2F32%2Fitems%2Fmobot31753000237419&server=ia600604.us.archive.org&page=n452_w1150.jpg>", > recorded today. I tried to find its current accepted name, but confused :- > > - http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/tro-2100127 > - http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/tro-2106580 > - http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?2489 > > Thank you, > > Regards, > > surajit > > -- > > > > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use > them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 2030 members & > 1,42,000 messages on 31/12/12) or Efloraofindia website: > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database > of more than 7500 species). > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > --
