Xanthosoma
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Xanthosoma is a genus of flowering plants in the arum family, Araceae. The genus is native to tropical America but widely cultivated and naturalized in other tropical regions. Several are grown for th
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Inflorescence of Xanthosoma sagittifolium
Inflorescence of X. daguense
Famine food
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A famine food or poverty food is any inexpensive or readily available food used to nourish people in times of hunger and starvation, whether caused by extreme poverty, such as during economic depressi
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…for commercial production. In general, production has yet to meet demand in some areas. In Polynesia, Alocasia macrorrhizos (‘ape) was considered a famine food, used only in the event of failure of the much preferred taro (kalo) crop. After having been introduced to Hawaii in the 1920s from South America…
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Breads made of orache and bran, fried in machine oil, were used as food in besieged Leningrad.[citation needed]
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