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Taro (Colocasia esculenta) is a tropical plant grown primarily for its edible corms.

Taro may also refer to:

Plants

• Alocasia macrorrhizos, giant taro
• Cyrtosperma merkusii, swamp taro
• Xanthosoma sagittifolium, blue taro

Places

• Taro (river), a river in northern Italy
• Taro (department), a former administrative division of the First French Empire in present Italy, named after the Taro River
• Tarō, Iwate, Japan (田老町), former town in Shimohei District, Iwate Prefecture (now part of Miyako)
• Taro Island, community in the Solomon Islands, capital of Choiseul Province
• Tarou, Dominica, a small village in western Dominica

Other uses

• Tarō (given name), a Japanese name
• David Taro (born 1984), Solomon Islands soccer defender
• Gerda Taro (1910–1937), German war photographer
• Volkswagen Taro, a pickup truck, rebadge of the Toyota Hilux
• Ultraman Taro, a 1973 television series
• 48 Infantry Division Taro, an Italian infantry division of World War II
• "Taro", a song by the British band alt-J from the 2012 album An Awesome Wave
• Taro Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical manufacturer
• Territorial Army Reserve of Officers, former name of the U.K. Army Reserve
• The monetary unit in the online game Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall
• Taro, a dog that survived a winter in Antarctica; see Taro and Jiro

See also

• Asashio Tarō (disambiguation)
• Taarof, Persian customs
• All pages with titles beginning with Taro