Re: Colocasia identification

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Dear Stefano:

Why don't you wait to ask until after you see it mature into a juvenile  or
Adult plant.  This species is out there as a tissue cultured liner from at
least one Tissue Culture lab and it is a very fast grower. This picture
looks like a liner size plant leaf of C. gigantea. Plant it in a good peat
based soil mix with slow release fertilizer in 50% shade and just watch it
go.  

Denis 
Silver Krome Gardens, Inc
Homestead Florida

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Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 12:27 PM
To: aroid-l@www.gizmoworks.com
Subject: [Aroid-l] Colocasia identification
Importance: High

Dear Sirs,

I am an Italian naturalistic writer and photographer and I've bought a
rhizome on E-Bay one month a go from a man who said it belongs to a
Colocasia gigantea he personally collected in Asia.
Now I have a very small plant, but can you identify it? 
Here are the pictures:
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/uploads/5325/DSC_3514.JPG
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/uploads/5325/DSC_3520.JPG
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/uploads/5325/DSC_3519.JPG
Is it really a Colocasia gigantea or it could be a more common Colocasia
esculenta? What are the scientific characteristic of a Colocaosia gigantea?
Can you help me please?

Best regards
Stefano Barone
www.stefanobarone.net

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