Malanga is a tropical vegetable, a variety of Colocasia esculenta, closely related to taro (dasheen), that is primarily used for its thickened stems (corms). It has smaller corms than taro, and in all but the best cultivars there is an acrid taste that requires careful cooking. The young leaves can also be cooked and eaten, but (unlike taro) they have a somewhat acrid taste.

Packing
Variety – Red, White, Coco (Dasheen) Eddoes
Weight per box – 17 kilogram (40 lb) gross weight or 18kg. Dasheen – 23kg (mesh sack)
Boxes per pallet – 54 or 60 pending weight restrictions
Sizing – red and white malanga may vary from 10 – 30 centimeters, eddoes are egg sized as a minimum and maximum size comparative to a tennis ball. Dasheen or Malanga coco sizing could be minimum softball size – maximum oval shaped football
Storage Temperature – +7.5 Celsius or +45 Fahrenheit
Consolidation – may be shipped with pineapple, sweet potatoes, chayote, pumpkins
Availability – year round