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Name: Hardy,
Advisor: Hardy, Christopher
Department: BIOL
Award: Noonan Endowment
Abstract: The value of knowing exactly what one is eating cannot be overstated.However, somevegetables in area markets are soldundertaxonomically ambiguous commonnameswhichcannotbe matchedpreciselytotheirspeciesidentity.Vegetables oftheColocasia-Xanthosomacomplex, for example, areedibletubers produced by as many as three different tropical plantspecies (C. esculenta,C. antiquorum, andX. sagittifolium)and can be found inLancaster Countymarkets under a variety of names includingtaro,American taro,dasheen,malanga,yautía,andeddoe