Re: Xanthosoma robustum infloresence

Dear Michael,

Nice photo!
This species does bloom regularly, but there are other species (?) of Xanthosoma cultivated as food which do not, it has been surmised that the species which have been cultivated for the longest period of time are the ones that do not.   One is the yellow fleshed species seldom available here in Florida.   Besides not blooming, this one does not seem to produce the edible off-shoot tubers, it seems that it is grown for a long period of time, and the lower portion of the main rhizome is then cut off and used as food.  The result is an expensive product!   Several Colocasia cultivars are like this.

The best,

Julius

From: mickpascall@hotmail.com
To: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:43:25 +1000
Subject: [Aroid-l] Xanthosoma robustum infloresence

I planted a few excess tubers of this down the back at my place to see if they would grow in the thick layer of ash dumped there  from the local sugar mill .
A few trees I had planted had not done to well and as I had not yet got the town water down there I could not water during the dry season .
Amazingly enough they thrived, and formed a large clump over 2m high and even wider . REcently while a mate was slashing the very high grass I trimmed off many of the leaves so he could get close to this clump . Several had many inflorences .


Michael Pascall

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