A leafy green plant that is Edible when cook that look like spinach
Callaloo in the field
Callaloo (sometimes calaloo) is a Caribbean dish that is most popular in Guyana, Barbados, Grenada, Haiti, Dominica , Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago. The main ingredient is a leaf vegetable, traditionally either amaranth (known by many local names including callaloo or bhaaji) or taro or Xanthosoma species (both known by many names including callaloo, coco, tannia, or dasheen bush) vegetable.
Uncooked Callaloo
The leaf vegetable used in some regions may be locally called "callaloo" or "callaloo bush", some confusion can arise among the different vegetables and with the dish itself. Outside of the Caribbean, water spinach is occasionally used.
Callaloo
Jamaicans use the name callaloo to refer to amaranth, and use it in a plethora of dishes and also a drink ('callaloo juice'). Jamaicans also make a soup called Pepperpot Soup .
