[Aroid-l] Taro


 In my opinion the depiction is merely inaccurate in portraying a taro leaf (Colocasia) because the artist was working more from memory than life. The pineapple top and coconut trees are similarly memorized.

 

So it is a generalized image, like the term “Elephant Ear”, and may have suggestions of Xanthosoma as well as of Colocasia.

 

John Criswick

Grenada.

 

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