Noun: Tacca leontopetaloides
- Perennial herb of East Indies to Polynesia and Australia; cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch
"Tacca leontopetaloides is an important food crop in some Pacific Island cultures";
- pia, Indian arrowroot, Tacca pinnatifida
Type of: herb, herbaceous plant
Part of: genus Tacca, Tacca
Encyclopedia: Tacca leontopetaloides