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Bac há (colocasia gigantea [blume] hook. F.) in the culinary history of Vietnamese-Americans

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Nguyen, L.T. Bac há (colocasia gigantea [blume] hook. F.) in the culinary history of Vietnamese-Americans. Econ Bot 59, 185–190 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1663/0013-0001(2005)059[0185:BHCGBH]2.0.CO;2

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