EMERGENCY FOOD PLANTS AND POISONOUS PLANTS 



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boiled or roasted. This is the wild form of the so-called 

 ma-tai of the Chinese and the tubers in normal times are 

 extensively imported into the United States by them and 

 are served in Chinese restaurants. Local names: Apulid, 



Figure 28. — ^Polynesian arrowroot (Tacca leontopetaloides) . 



potok, tike, tikai, dekeng, pangoke, tereke, goro, pagoro, bigdu, 

 mansiro-holong , utu-utu, uchdga-ldhe. 



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