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 esculenta 'Coffee Cups' ('Coffee Cups' elephant's ear)
Photo/Illustration: Courtesy of Andy Cabe, Riverbanks Zoo and Garden
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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, 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.
Colocasia esculenta 'Black Magic'
also known as Colocasia antiquorum 'Black Magic' - Cocoyam, Elephant's ear, Taro
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Colocasia esculenta 'Fontanesii'
Genus: Colocasia
Species: esculenta
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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 esculenta
Non-Native to Florida
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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
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Colocasia esculenta 'Fontanesia' - wine red veins and margins
Colocasia esculenta 'Illustris' - purplish markings between the leaf veins.
Colocasia esculenta 'Black Magic' - purple-black leaves ...
Colocasia esculenta 'Fontanesii'
BLACK STEM ELEPHANT EAR
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Colocasia esculenta var. antiquorum 'Black Beauty'
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Elephant ear (Colocasia esculenta) is a tropical plant also referred to as taro. The plant thrives in warm areas with high humidity and grows best in low light. Elephant ear prefers a fertile, acidic…
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Elephant's Ear (Colocasia esculenta)
Distinctive very large ornamental green leaves.
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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
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and Colocasia esculenta, often called Taro. Alocasia macrorrhiza differs from the others in having an upright stem and holding its leaves upright, and in several technical characteristics that mean a lot to the botanists.
(syn: Alocasia macrorrhiza) This very cool elephant ear is quite different from the typical Colocasia esculenta. The thick sculpted, glossy green leaves are held upright on dramatically rigid stems.
A few are eaten, such as poi and taro (Colocasia esculenta) in Hawaii, but only after the poison is eliminated by cooking. Seven species of aroids occur naturally in Indiana, mostly in wet areas.
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).
Taro (Colocasia esculenta, syn. C. antiquorum), grown as either a dryland plant or as an aquatic, produces large, bluish green leaves, often marked with dark purple. The leaves of 'Jet Black Wonder' and 'Black Magic' are entirely dark purple.
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
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 See also: Colocasia, Taro, Canna, Calla, Green
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