Taro (disambiguation)

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
 * 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