Both tubers and leaves of this plant are edible and the tubers have medicinal value.
Kushal Mookherjee On 9 October 2010 01:27, tanay bose <[email protected]> wrote: > Nice catch Ratna Di, > I think this is not eaten in Bengal > Tanay > > On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Ratna Ghosh <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Scientific Name: *Typhonium trilobatum >> *Common Name(Beng): Ghetkachu, Kharkon >> Family: *Araceae >> *Flowering: June-October >> Location: BGarden, Sibpur,WBengal >> >> Ratna Ghosh >> >> > > > -- > *Tanay Bose* > Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant. > Department of Botany. > University of British Columbia . > 3529-6270 University Blvd. > Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada) > Phone: 778-323-4036 (Mobile) > 604-822-2019 (Lab) > [email protected] > > -- With regards, J.M.Garg ([email protected]) 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 liberal licensing conditions attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Google e-group- Efloraofindia: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1400 members & 49,500 messages on 5/10/10 & with a database of around 4050 species on 21/8/10)
