Re: Elephant ear
At 10:08 AM 10/8/98 +0100, you wrote:
>I've been following the correspondence on Elephant Ears with limited
>interest since I don't know what they are - here in UK popular names of
>plants are often different. Can someone give me the botanical name,
>please.
>
>Cliff
>London UK
>
Cliff, it's Colocasia esculenta, or taro. If you have an Asian or Oriental
grocery store in your vicinity, just buy a taro root and plant that.
Voila! Elephant ear! One of my friends treats it like an annual, and
doesn't bother to dig the bulb. A new bulb costs about 50 cents at her
nearby Asian grocery store. Margaret
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