Colocasia esculenta
Elephant's Ear, Taro
The enormous elongated heart-shaped leaves of Elephant's Ears make them useful accents in beddings (where space permits), large containers and water gardens.
Colocasia
Family: Araceae.
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Colocasia esculenta 'Coffee Cups' ('Coffee Cups' elephant's ear)
Photo/Illustration: Courtesy of Andy Cabe, Riverbanks Zoo and Garden
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The Colocasia Family
Colocasias are known in the western world by three common names; taro, kalo and the descriptive anatomical name, elephant ear.
Colocasia esculenta
'Black Stem'
Black Stem Taro
Description
Colocasia esculenta ‘Black Stem’ is a large leaved Taro with dark burgundy petioles and veins.
Colocasia esculenta 'Fontanesii' (Black Taro) - A tender herbaceous perennial that holds large dark green heart-shaped leaves on dark purple (almost black) stalks. Grows 4-6 feet tall and about 5 feet wide in wet soils or shallow water.
Colocasia esculenta, or Taro, is widely grown in the tropics for food and as an ornamental planting. The edible tubers are used in Poi and the young shoots are blanched and used as a winter vegetable.
Colocasias are often called elephant ears; however, when I lived in Hawaii we knew these evergreen, big leaf plants as taro. Grown as a vegetable food, taro must be cooked or steeped in water to remove the toxic calcium oxalate before it's eaten.
Colocasia esculenta 'Fontanesii'
Genus: Colocasia
Species: esculenta
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Colocasia esculenta 'Euchlora' leaf, showing how the leaf stalk joins to the leaf underside in this species (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
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#899 Colocasia esculenta
Common Names: taro, dasheen, elephant ear, cocoyam, eddo, eddoe
Family: Araceae (arum Family)
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Colocasia
Common name: Elephant Ear, Taro
About Elephant Ear
Elephant ear a wetland perennial in tropical climates. It is grown for both edible and ornamental uses, with over 200 cultivars available.
Colocasia esculenta
Non-Native to Florida
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Colocasia esculenta 'Black Magic' black taro
perennial, average care
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Colocasia esculenta
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Colocasia esculenta. Eddo or dasheen or taro or elephant ear or kalo.
Coral plant. See Heath.
COLOCASIA ESCULENTA - Taro, Dasheen, Eddo, Kalo, Dalo
COLOMBIAN WALNUT - Juglans colombensis
COLOMBIAN WILD CHERRY - Prunus capuli ...
Colocasia gigantea (?)
Colocasia sp.
Family: Araceae
Elephant Ear
Origin: Polynesia and southeastern Asia ...
Colocasia: TARO
Dieffenbachia: DUMBCANE
Monstera: CUT-LEAF PHILODENDRON, CERIMAN, MEXICAN BREADFRUIT ...
Colocasia esculenta at Wikipedia
See also root_crop_storage
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Elephant's Ear (Colocasia esculenta)
Distinctive very large ornamental green leaves.
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Yellow Splash Taro [English]: Colocasia esculenta 'Yellow Splash'
Yellow Splashed Edge Hosta [English]: Hosta 'Yellow Splashed Edge'
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Colocasia esculenta (Dasheen, eddo, taro) - poisonous; skin & eye
irritant
Comfrey, Russian comfrey - see Symphytum
Convallaria majalis (Lily-of-the-valley) - poisonous
Copperleaf - see Acalypha
Coriaria - poisonous ...
Colocasia esculenta var. antiquorum (Elephant's ear)
Colocasia esculenta (Taro)
Dieffenbachia 'Alfredo' (Dumb Cane)
Dieffenbachia amoena (Dumb Cane)
Dieffenbachia bausei (Dumb Cane)
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This family includes philodendron, colocasia, caladium, alocasia and other very tropical foliage plants. Like these other aroids, xanthosoma thrive in an environment of high humidity, copious water and food, and elevated temperatures.
Colocasia, on the other hand, should be kept continually moist and can be grown submerged in a shallow pond up to 15 centimetres deep. Xanthosoma, meanwhile, prefers consistent moisture, but will tolerate occasional dry periods.
Description:
Also known by the scientific name of Colocasia esculenta, Elephant Ears has long been popular as a containerized or planter annual that is prized for its huge, bold-textured foliage that resembles an "elephant's ears".
Apparently, the plant makes a short rhizome somewhat like a caladium, not the upright trunk found on Alocasia macrorrhizos (Elephant Ear) or the large fleshy tuber of Colocasia esculenta (also called Elephant Ear).
They are often known by the common name elephant ear (which they share with the closely related genera Alocasia, Colocasia, and Xanthosoma), Heart of Jesus,[2] and Angel Wings.
Synonymy: Arisaraceae Rafinesque, Caladiaceae Salisbury, Callaceae Bartling, Colocasiaceae Vines, Cryptocorynaceae J. Agardh, Philodendraceae Vines, Pistiaceae C. Agardh ...
Calla aethiopica, Richardia africana, Richardia aethiopica, Colocasia aethiopica
Araceae
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It is thought to have once been a major staple food in Micronesia that became extinct there prior to the introduction of related taro species (for example Colocasia esculenta). The rhizomes are used for animal feed and famine food for people.
Philodendron, usually a climbing shrub in the tropics, is now one of the most popular house plants. Caladium, noted for its multicolored foliage, is sometimes mistakenly called elephant's-ear, a name properly applied to taro (Colocasia esculenta) or ...
wild taro; dasheen; kalo; eddo Colocasia esculenta
wineberry Rubus phoenicolasius
winged burning bush; wahoo; winged euonymus; winged spindle-tree Euonymus alata
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 See also: Colocasia esculenta, Ficus, Green, Carissa, Musa
  
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