RE: Re: question for you Jim; xanthosoma

do you have any idea what ethnic ethnic [sic] eats this stuff? it's probably available in those kinds of bodegas/grocery stores as a plantable tuber. really new to me. i'd kind of like to try the lime zinger.


At 04:35 PM 12/12/02 -0600, you wrote:
No problem Jim. Just didn't think many would be interested.

I learned about this plant on another list. Seems it is used for the
roots as a food crop overseas. It also comes from south Florida where
these crops are grown. It happens to look a lot like a taro, actually
more interesting from the pictures that were displayed on that list.
They are saying you can buy the roots that will grow into a plant for 10
uscents a pound. So I thought.... hum... I could buy a lot of look alike
taro's for that price. But I need an American soil source! Anyone ever
heard of this? I would think it was the blue taro, although they
referred to it as malanga.

Which BTW a black taro around here... very small plant, one set of small
leaves... is in the neighborhood of 25.00 a piece... quite a difference
in price for me.

Donna

> 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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