Alocasia macrorrhizos
naturalizedAraceae

Alocasia macrorrhizos

giant taro

Alocasia macrorrhizos is a species of flowering plant in the arum family, Araceae, that it is native to rainforests from Malaysia to Queensland and has long been cultivated on many Pacific islands and elsewhere in the tropics. Common names include giant taro, ʻape, giant alocasia and pai. In Australia it is known as the cunjevoi (although that term also refers to a marine animal).

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Where documented · 66 ahupuaʻa
documented occurrences · iNaturalist + GBIF · iNaturalist 198 · GBIF 88 records
Waikīkī · OʻahuiNat 30 · GBIF 13
Kahana · OʻahuiNat 11 · GBIF 5
Alakahi · HawaiʻiiNat 10 · GBIF 4
Honolulu · OʻahuiNat 11 · GBIF 3
Hanalei · KauaʻiiNat 9 · GBIF 4
Kāneʻohe · OʻahuiNat 10 · GBIF 2
Puʻuhaoa · MauiiNat 7 · GBIF 4
Waimea · OʻahuiNat 9 · GBIF 2
Lāwai · KauaʻiiNat 4 · GBIF 6
Waipiʻo · HawaiʻiiNat 2 · GBIF 7
Moanalua · OʻahuiNat 7 · GBIF 1
Wailua · KauaʻiiNat 5 · GBIF 2
Kailua · OʻahuiNat 4 · GBIF 1
Hālawa · OʻahuiNat 3 · GBIF 2
West Honomāʻele · MauiiNat 3 · GBIF 2
ʻAiea · OʻahuiNat 4 · GBIF 1
Kahaluʻu · OʻahuiNat 3 · GBIF 2
Waiheʻe · OʻahuiNat 2 · GBIF 2
Hālawa · MolokaʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 3
ʻAlaenui · MauiiNat 2 · GBIF 1
Wailua · MauiiNat 1 · GBIF 2
Wainiha · KauaʻiiNat 2 · GBIF 1
Hanakaʻōʻō · MauiiNat 2 · GBIF 1
West Hanawana · MauiiNat 1 · GBIF 1
Nāʻiwa · MolokaʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1
Honolua · MauiiNat 1 · GBIF 1
Keʻanae · MauiiNat 1 · GBIF 1
Kalihikai · KauaʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1
Kamananui · OʻahuiNat 1 · GBIF 1
Waiākea · HawaiʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1
Nāmāhana · KauaʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1
Opihikao · HawaiʻiiNat 1 · GBIF 1