In the Philippines, giant swamp taro is known as palawan (or palauan), palaw (or palau), or payaw (also applied to Homalomena philippinensis). It is commonly cultivated and harvested for their corms in the Visayas Islands and Mindanao (especially in Siargao and northeastern Mindanao).

Aug 14, 2022 · Initial findings of two ongoing Giant Swamp Taro (GST) projects show GST’s potential as source of supplemental food in Agusan del Sur. According to Agusan del Sur State College of Agriculture and Technology (ASSCAT), GST is processed as flour or starch used for making chips for snacks, baby food, and other food products.

- Giant swamp taro is the largest of the root crop plants known collectively as Taro, which are cultivated throughout Southeast Asia and the Pacific. - Giant swamp taro may be field stored for very long periods - up to 30 years or more - and, as such, has been used as emergency crop in times of natural disaster and food scarcity. (1)

Mar 14, 2012 · Giant swamp taro (Cyrtosperma chamissonis) is a native plant of the Philippines that has dozens of varieties thriving on most of the tropical islands in the Pacific. Giant swamp taro is grown and harvested in small patches for its underground tubers, called corms.

Giant Swamp Taro is highly valued but consumption is infrequent. It can be eaten to replace other crops like breadfruit when not in season, it can withstand strong winds and hurricanes, thus providing food security (Englberger et al., 2004).

Giant Swamp Taro “ Cyrtosperma chamissonis ” is a native plant in the Philippines. It can also be found in Bohol, Philippines especially in swampy coastal areas. It is used as food and is prepared in several ways like roasting, grating, or baking the corm whole.

Giant swamp taro is an underutilized root crop in the Philippines. The nutrient, phytochemicals, and carbohydrate profile of the processed taro from the cultivated and wild varieties were measured and the storage stability of the flour was determined.

Jul 29, 2022 · The focus of the study was the giant swamp taro (GST). Known in the science world as Cyrtosperma chamissonis, this is the kind of taro that is abundant in the province.

The Giant Swamp Taro is found in the lowland rainforests of southeast Asia, especially in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and surrounding islands. There, it grows along streams, rivers and in stretches of forest that are regularly flooded by rainfall.

C. merkusii: 1, habit of leaf; 2, leaf blade with part of petiole; 3, inflorescence; 4, flowers; 5, infructescence; 6, part of infructescence with fruits and seeds.Reproduced from the series 'Plant Resources of South-East Asia', by kind permission of the PROSEA Foundation, Bogor, Indonesia.