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Tropical Root Crop Production in Florida1

M.L. Lamberts and S.M. Olson2

The Vegetable Production Handbook for Florida was updated in November 2009. 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

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Figure 1. 

Cassava plant showing stem with leaves and edible roots.


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Figure 2. 

Taro plant showing peltate leaves.


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Figure 3. 

Tannia plant showing sagettate lamina.


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Figure 4. 

Tannia corm (center) surrounded by cormels.


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Figure 5. 

Deeply lobed leaves of 'picadito.'


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Figure 6. 

Typical stem cutting used as planting stock.


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Figure 7. 

Stem cuttings used as propagules.


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Figure 8. 

Dasheen mosaic on tannia.


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Figure 9. 

Cassava root.


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Figure 10. 

Hand pulled cassava.


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Figure 11. 

Taro corm.


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Figure 12. 

Tannia cormels.


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Footnotes

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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. Revised January 2012. Please visit the EDIS website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.

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M.L. 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, FL 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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