Food level of Colocacia esculenta Linn

Colocacia esculenta Linn is a herbaceous perennial 0.5-2 m tall, with an underground starchy corm which produces at its apex a whorl of large leaves with long robust petioles. The leaves are heart-shaped, 20 - 50 cm long, with rounded basal lobes; the leaf stalk joins the blade some distance inward from the notch between the lobes. The plant is abundantly available in the study area and is a main source of income.

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Dr. Sultan Alam is Assistant Professor in Physical Chemistry, University of Malakand, at Chakdara, Dir (L), Pakistan. His research interest includes the monitoring of drinking water quality/industrial effluents and its impacts on human life, exploration of soil contaminants, quantification of nutrients in the indigenous medicinal plants.