The dasheen requires a rather warm climate for its growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency] Reference

The next vegetable is a rather exotic one for me: Taro root, also known as dasheen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference

Exports—commodities: bananas 39%, eddoes and dasheen (taro), arrowroot starch; tennis racquets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saint Vincent and the Grenadines] Reference

Exports - commodities: bananas 39\%, eddoes and dasheen (taro), arrowroot starch, tennis racquets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Exports - commodities: bananas 39\%, eddoes and dasheen (taro), arrowroot starch; tennis racquets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Exports -- commodities: bananas 39\%, eddoes and dasheen (taro), arrowroot starch, tennis racquets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference

The improvement of cultivation methods in dasheen and eddoe (Colocasia esculenta) growing in Trinidad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 32] Reference

Most upland varieties (dasheen and eddoe) mature quicker than the paddy-grown taro, in 180 - 120 days versus 240 - 300 days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9] Reference

Her brother, sister and countless cousins and well-wishers showed up to show support and eat the cooked goat and chicken w/ rice and peas rice & gungo peas, dasheen and plantain.    From Wordnik.com.  [So Many Goats & No Sheep] Reference

There are about 1000 recognised cultivars, but these fall mainly into two groups: the eddoe type of taro, which has a relatively small corm surrounded by large well-developed cormels (and 42 chromosomes), and the dasheen, which has a large central corm and numerous but small cormels arising from its surface (and 28 chromosomes).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 32] Reference

'We farm the land as a family and planted 20 acres of cassava and five acres of dasheen,' he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [TrinidadExpress Today's News] Reference

He said that the family cultivated five acres of dasheen at Arima and two acres at Tunapuna and it was their only means of livelihood.    From Wordnik.com.  [TrinidadExpress Today's News] Reference

She loves cooking for her residents and friends; kidney beans and rice, curry chicken, brown stewed chicken, plantains, dasheen and green bananas.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"This programme involves a number of selected crops, namely, Irish and sweet potatoes, hot pepper, carrot, onion and dasheen," Mr. Worghs told JIS News.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jamaica Information Service] Reference

As a result of interventions by the Government, dasheen, hot pepper and cocoa farmers now have stable markets for their produce and are guaranteed of weekly incomes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caribbean Net News Daily Headlines] Reference

We recognised perhaps half of the fruit and veg on display, identifying plantain and passionfruit but requiring Lenny to explain the dasheen, tania, breadfruit and manciport.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

The restaurant, with dramatic views over the misty valley beneath, serves delicious Creole dishes - tuna with papaya salad and a thick, spinachy soup made from the leaves of the local dasheen plant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

St. Ann Parish Manager for the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), Pedro Worghs, told JIS News that the crops being targeted included carrots, Irish potato, yam, dasheen, sweet potato, ginger, red peas and hot peppers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jamaica Information Service] Reference

C. esculenta var. globulifera) and the dasheen is C. esculenta var. esculenta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 32] Reference

37. 5-75 (irrigated, heavily fertilised); Hawaii 15-25 (dry land, heavily fertilised); India 34; Malaysia 9-10; the Philippines 25; Trinidad (dasheen) 10-15; Trinidad (eddoe) 5-10.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 32] Reference

It is the dasheen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency] Reference

You know what a dasheen is?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Letters of Walter H Page]

2 lbs boiled cassava (mashed) 2 lbs boiled sweet potato (mashed) 2 lbs boiled dasheen (mashed) 1 lb grated cheese.    From Wordnik.com.  [TrinidadExpress Today's News] Reference

1992) commodities: bananas, eddoes and dasheen (taro), arrowroot starch, tennis racquets partners.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1994 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Root crops: Colocasia antiquorum (cocoa-yam, dasheen, eddoe, gabi, taro).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 32] Reference