If you have been to the West Indies, or Florida for that matter, you may have encountered something called dasheen.
Dasheen (Colocasia esculenta) is a type of taro. Taro plants fall into two main camps.

The wetland taros, which you may have encountered on a trip to Hawaii in the form of Polynesian poi.

And the upland taros, or dasheens, which produce a multitude of eddos (another name for taro) that are used like potatoes and an edible mammy.