Its preferred habitat were coastal swamps and marshland covered with taro plants (Colocasia esculenta).

Lū is the Tongan name for the edible leaves of the taro plant, as well as the traditional dish made using them.

Food does not get much humbler than poi, the pasty staple made from the taro plant.

A fine piece of steak comes with plantains and sauteed callaloo, the dark green leaves of the taro plant.

Poi is the chief article of food among the natives, and is prepared from the taro plant.

It comes from the Hawaiian word ʻohā meaning the root of the taro plant, the most important plant in Hawaiian culture.

This is because Hawaiians believed that the taro plant, or kalo, was the original ancestor of the Hawaiian people.

I rented a bicycle ($5) and rode around the Circle Road, stopping to admire goats and gorgeous dark green fields of taro plants.

One of many mythological versions on Hawaiian ancestry deals with the taro plant of being an ancestor to Hawaiians.

Along the side of the rivers are banana plantations thriving naturally and many taro plants.