Re: question for you Jim; xanthosoma

hi, donna. hope you don't mind if i put this on the list; someone else may be interested.

the short answer, however, is "no, we don't sell it."

i had not heard of this plant until you asked about it. so i did some scouting around at work today and this is what i found:

a recent issue of plant finder lists four xanthosomas--"golden delicious," "lime zinger," "yautia [say what?]," and "blue taro." there are only three growers involved and a very limited number of sizes.
boynton botanicals [a grower with an excellent reputation] grows two of them, the golden and the lime. excelsa gardens [another excellent grower] also grow two of them, the golden and the blue. a nursery i had never heard of before, land sylvia gordon, grows the one with the funny name.

i'm reasonably certain that boynton and excelsa have web sites, although i forgot to check that out in plant finder. both are big growers of unusual tropicals so a google search ought to find them.

about price: it's hard to tell if they would be cheaper than taro in your area. 3-gallon xanthosomas seem to wholesale for about twice the average for 3-gallon plants. they are very interesting, however.

have you tried buying a whole taro at your local walmart and growing it in a pot?


At 11:52 PM 12/11/02 -0600, you wrote:
Hey Jim,
Does your nursery sell these malanga? Thinking it would be a whole lot
cheaper than buying taros around here .... even with the shipping
charges come spring time.

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/MV090


Donna

jsinger@igc.org

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