Re: Colocasia & Alocasia winter storage temp
- To: lindsey@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Colocasia & Alocasia winter storage temp
- From: S*@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 12:54:46 -0600
In a message dated 12/10/98 7:00:54 AM Pacific Standard Time,
hesterc@leguin.acpub.duke.edu writes:
> Those that are more "fleshy" in the root system (e.g., Colocasia
> fontanesii or C. antiquorum--excuse the certain spelling) have not
> survived for me if dug up and stored;
So, am I again behind on nomenclature? Last I heard, C. antiquorum ("eddoe")
was a subspecies of C. esculenta ("taro").
Jason Hernandez
Naturalist-at-Large
