Re: Colocasia & Alocasia winter storage temp

Well the explains why I've done so poorly with illustris & fontanesii in
the past!  I did even worse with burgandy stem.  

I found an antiquorum illustirs offshoot about 4" high and decided to
transplant that rather than try to store it.  Apparently that decision
(before I learned what you say) has insured that I'll have that for next
year.  Can I assume you're suggesting I replant my fontanesii right away?  

How does the all black colocasia (the one with a thousand names including
"black magic") do?
           Les

At 08:42 AM 12/11/98 -0600, you wrote:
>S
>> So, am I again behind on nomenclature?  Last I heard, C. antiquorum
("eddoe")
>> was a subspecies of C. esculenta ("taro").
>> 
>> Jason Hernandez
>
>So?  That doesn't mean every subspecies has the same characteristics.
>I'll be the first
>one to admit I'm not sure of the nomenclature, but there are several
>that have fleshy
>tubers, are stoloniferous and do *not* do well in bare root storage. 
>Two of these include a purple-stemmed
>colocasia and also one that has green leaves heavily covered with
>irregular purple blotches.
>I have seen these referred to as Colocasia fontanesii and Colocasia
>antiquroum "Illustris", respectively.
>We can leave nomenclature to the true experts, but if I'm wrong on these
>names, so are a lot
>of people.
>
>Clarence
>
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