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, including list of persons and fictional characters with the 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