Brazil Cabbage, CHOU CARAIBE

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 407

Brazil Cabbage, CHOU CARAIBE, are names somewhat vaguely applied to various species of Caladium and Colocasia (natural order, Araceæ), which yield edible tubers, and are largely cultivated in the tropics. See ARUM, COCCO.

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