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. Many offer beautiful variations in leaf color and texture for garden use.
Elephant ear has no known biological control agents.
Chemical:
Chemicals with known control are limited.
Elephant Ear Breeding
We first became interested in elephant ears in the late 1980's, but it was on a 2003 trip to Hawaii looking for elephant ears that the scope of our interest and knowledge of the genus changed dramatically. Here, I met Dr.
Elephant ear taro is a massive aroid with a spectacular cluster of upwardly pointing, arrow-shaped leaf blades which can reach one metre in length.
Leaf of Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G. Don (Image: Simon Mayo, RBG Kew)
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Black stem elephant ear
Colocasia esculenta 'Fontanesii'
Genus: Colocasia
Species: esculenta
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Its common name, black stem elephant ear, is all about the plant's dark purple stems so dark they appear to be black. Colocasias are often called elephant ears; however, when I lived in Hawaii we knew these evergreen, big leaf plants as taro.
lig-yew-LAR-ee-ah Common Name: Ligularia, elephant ear
Ligularia is a genus of about 150 ornamental perennial plants native to Central and East Asia and some parts of Europe. They're often found near large bodies of water.
Xanthosoma are not typically thought of as houseplants-in tropical countries, they are farmed for their starchy tubers, and almost everywhere else they are the collectors' plants known as elephant ears and grown in botanical gardens and greenhouses.
Colocasia esculenta
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Black Leaf Elephant Ear
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Elephant Ear Philodendron
Philodendron bipinnatifidum
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Velvet Elephant Ear - Tree-like shrub to 6 to 12 ft. tall w/olive-green, triangular, velvety leaves. Sun or shade. Drought tolerant. Frost tender - protect below 30F. [Kalanchoe vantieghemi]
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Elephant Ears
Bergenia crassifolia is in full bloom much earlier than B. cordifolia.
Elephant ears (Alocasia brisbanensis) grows naturally as an understorey herb in rainforests and on rainforest margins in eastern Australia, where it is known as "cunjevoi".
Elephant ear plants can add a backdrop to plantings or make a statement on their own. From green to purplish-black, their colorful leaves add drama to gardens.
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The elephant ear fig tree is the fig tree with the largest leaves in the rainforests of Xishuangbanna.
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180 (300)cm, Elephant Ear Titan Aroid is a tall species from Malaysia, cultivated throughout the tropics. Makes a leaf similar to those in Amorphophallus titanum, above a nicely white to dark brown checkered stem.
Taro, sometimes called the "potato of the tropics," and often called "elephant ears" is a wetland herbaceous perennial with huge elephant ear leaves. It produces heart shaped leaves 2-3 ft (0.6-0.9 m) long and 1-2 ft ((0.6-0.9 m) across on 3 ft (0.
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Taro is often referred to as Elephant Ear, a name also given to the ornamentals Xanthosoma and Caladium to which it is related.
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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.
Alocasia plumbea ( Silver Leaf Elephant Ear )
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Colocasia esculenta. Eddo or dasheen or taro or elephant ear or kalo.
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Opuntia tuna (Elephant Ear Prickly Pear, Tuna Prickly Pear)
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 See also: Elephant, Green, May, Colocasia, Lily
  
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