General characteristics: Medium in height to tall, moderately spreading, maturing within 9 to 12 months, producing very early from 6 to 12 short, thick rhizomes; distinguishable by brilliant reddish-purple coloration overlying light and dark green striping on petioles.
General characteristics: Medium in height to tall, moderately spreading, maturing within 9 to 12 months, producing from 10 to 15 long, slender rhizomes, distinguished by length of rhizomes.
General characteristics: Medium in height to tall, well spreading, stocky, maturing within 9 to 12 months, producing from 5 to 10 oha which may remain dormant for several weeks; identified by exceedingly large leaf blades, very thick and firm in texture, and conspicuously divergent petiole sinus.
General Characteristics: Short to medium in height, stiffly erect, moderately stocky, maturing in less than 10 months, producing more than 20 oha which remain dormant for several weeks; distinguished by dark green petioles diffused with reddish brown.
General Characteristics: Medium in height to tall, stiffly erect, stocky, maturing within 10 months, producing more than 20 oha which remain dormant for several weeks; outstanding among the Japanese taros because of vivid petiole coloring.
General Characteristics: Short, spreading, moderately stocky, often maturing within 6 months, producing as many as 40 oha that remain mostly dormant; distinguished by light green petiole sinus.