O.K. Now you've got me with all this 'talk' of black colocasias. Is there one called 'African Mask'? I seem to remember that as the name of a really incredible thing I saw in a display planting at a wholesale nursery a couple of weeks ago. Wonderful, it was! Donna Maroni dmaroni@email.unc.edu "Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do." --Oscar Wilde