﻿Inventory 52, Seeds and Plants Imported. 



Plate III, 



The Yellow Tanyah, 

 Region. 



an Edible Aroid for the Southeastern Coast 

 (Colocasia sp., S. P. I. No. 45065.) 



The yellow tanyah, Colocasia sp., of the coast regions of South Carolina and Georgia. This is 

 the smaller and richer flavored of the two kinds of taro, or tanyah, grown for perhaps two 

 centuries in that section. The corms and cormels are extremely acrid and require boiling for 

 two hours to prepare them for the table. The flesh is white, but becomes slightly yellowish 

 in cooking. The flavor is rich but pronounced, and a taste for it usually has to be acquired. 

 This taro is of an undetermined species of Colocasia related to the dasheen, C. esculenta (L.) 

 Schott, and to the culcas, or Egyptian taro, C. antiquorum Schott. (Photographed by R. A. 

 Young at the Plant Introduction Field Station, Brooksville, Fla., October 16, 1912: P13S7SFS.) 



