Arbi leaves
The leaves of arbi (Colocasia esculenta) must have come into homes as packing material for the conventionally consumed corms. As the best leaves came during the rainy season, they were turned into pakode, a fried snack that can be made from different vegetables. Pakode made from leaves of arbi look and taste very different from the conventional pakode and are therefore called patode in villages of Uttar Pradesh.
The vegetable is native to South-central Asia, most probably India, and introduced elsewhere by migrants. The genus has about eight species distributed throughout Polynesia and Indo-Malaysia. Arbi belongs to the family Araceae