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Tropical Root Crop Production in Florida1
Mary Lamberts and S.M. Olson2The Vegetable Production Handbook for Florida was updated in September 2007. The most current version of this chapter may be found at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/CV/CV28600.pdf .
Keywords: cassava, tannia, taro, boniato, tropical sweetpotato
Photo gallery:
Figure 1. Cassava plant showing stem with leaves and edible roots.
Figure 2. Taro plant showing peltate leaves.
Figure 3. Tannia corm (center) surrounded by cormels.
Figure 4. Tannia plant showing sagettate lamina.
Figure 5. Deeply lobed leaves of 'picadito.'
Figure 6. Typical stem cutting used as planting stock.
Figure 7. Stem cuttings used as propagules.
Figure 8. Dasheen mosaic on tannia.
Figure 9. Cassava root.
Figure 10. Hand pulled cassava.
Figure 11. Taro corm.
Figure 12. Tannia cormels.
Footnotes
1. This document is HS965, one of a series of the Horticultural Sciences Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Date first printed: September 2003. Publication date: September 2007. Please visit the EDIS Web site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.2. Mary Lamberts, extension agent IV, Miami-Dade County; S.M. Olson, professor, NFREC-Quincy, Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, 32611. The Vegetable Production Handbook for Florida is edited by S.M. Olson, professor, NFREC-Quincy and E.H. Simonne, associate professor, Horticultural Sciences Department, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida.
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