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The Taro plant, also known as the Colocasia esculenta, is a tropical plant grown primarily for its edible corms, a root vegetable most commonly known as taro, as yam in Malaysia and Singapore, kalo, dasheen, edo, madhumbe, marope, ube, magogoya, patra, arbi or godere.

Kingdom of Plants 3D is a natural history documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, which explores the world of plants. It was filmed over the course of a year at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew.

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The one resource Wet Zone plants don’t need to fight for is Water in fact there can be so much rain in the rainforest that some species have to have special ways of getting rid of It this is the Taro plant and it has the most extraordinary Leaves watch what happens when I pour water on them the water rolls leaving the leaf behind almost dry and that’s because the leaf is covered with very very tiny microscopic structures which hold aoft the droplets of water and as a consequence only about 2% of water touches the actual Leaf surface

Itself and as the droplets roll away they carry with them the dirt and bacteria so in effect these leaves are self- Cleaning but there are some plants that use water in a different way and they live high up in the Canopy a tank Brad a plant that is dispensed with the need of growing in the soil on the ground and instead attaches itself to branches up here in the canopy where there’s plenty of light and since it’s so far from the ground it’s had to develop ways of getting its

Nutriment in a quite different way They collect some of the rain that everyday drenches the South American rainforest where they Live their leaves which are very Broad Channel the rainwater into a central Reservoir at their base the leaves are so tightly pressed together that the tank they create is watertight some species can hold up to 50 L of liquid the water not only hydrates the plant but it also provides a home for

Lot of creatures wouldn’t otherwise be able to live up here these little rers are the lva of mosquitoes in the wild there are lots of different creatures that can be found in these little pools