Tuckahoe

In Eastern Algonkian languages, the word tuckahoe was used for several edible plants, as well as an edible subterranean fungus.

Plants

• Peltandra virginica, also called Green arrow arum or Tuckahoe, the rhizome was cooked and used as food by Native Americans
• Orontium aquaticum, also called Golden-club or Tuckahoe, the seeds and rhizome were used as food by Native Americans

Fungi

• Wolfiporia extensa, also called Poria cocos, Tuckahoe, or Indian Bread; the sclerotium of a fungus used as food by Native Americans and by the Chinese as a medicinal

Tuckahoe may also refer to Tuckahoe-Cohee, an early colonial American cultural sub-group in Virginia and the Carolinas.

The Native American word has been used as a place name:

Buildings

• Tuckahoe Plantation, boyhood home of Thomas Jefferson, in Virginia
• Tuckahoe (Jensen Beach, Florida), or the Leach Mansion, in Jensen Beach, Florida

Bodies of water

• Tuckahoe Bay, in South Carolina
• Tuckahoe Creek, in Maryland
• Tuckahoe River (New Jersey)

Places

• Tuckahoe, New Jersey, an unincorporated community in Upper Township in Cape May County
• Tuckahoe (village), New York, a village in Westchester County
  • Tuckahoe (Metro-North station), railroad station in the village
• Tuckahoe, Suffolk County, New York, a hamlet in Suffolk County
• Tuckahoe, Virginia, a census-designated place in Henrico County

Parks

• Tuckahoe State Park, in Maryland

Other uses

• Camp Tuckahoe, a Boy Scouts of America camp in Pennsylvania