UTILIZATION AND COMPOSITION OF ORIENTAL VEGETABLES 
ROOT AND AQUATIC VEGETABLES 
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Common name 
Scientific name 
Chinese name 
Japanese name 
Page 
Sagittaria sagittifolia 
Maranta arundinacea 
Colocasia esculenta 
Chee-koo (T'sz-ku) — 
C hok-woo 
Kuwai... 
45 
Arrowroot.. 
46 
Chinese taro 
Bun-long-woo 
46 
Garlic 
Shin-tau 
48 
Zinaiber officinale __ _ __ 
Keong .. .. 
Shoga . 
48 
Great burdock i Arctium lappa. Lappa 
Xgau-pong.. .. 
Gobo 
49 
major, L. edulis. 
Japanese taro _. .. Colocasia esculenta.. 
Woo-chai. .. 
Ko-imo 
51 
Kudzu . .. ___| Pueraria thunbergiana. 
Fan-kot 
Kudzu .. 
52 
P. hirsuta, Dolichos 
japonica. 
53 
Oriental radish Ranhanus satimis lonai- 
Loh-bak choi ... 
Daikon 
54 
Turnip 
Water chestnut 
Yam 
Yam bean root 
pinnatus. 
Mu-ching.- 
Kabura 
55 
Scirpus tuberosus 
Ma-taL.- 
Kuro-kuwai 
55 
Tai-sue . - 
Naga-imo 
55 
Pachyrhizus erosus 
Sar-gott . 
57 
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