• Plant: Elephant Ear (Colocasia esculenta)
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Elephant ears number 76 nn; LHB p. 189, 29-2-?, "Variant of Coloc
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These bulbs were all moved here in April, 2014.

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Date: 2024-03-27
Taro or Elephant Ear (Colocasia esculenta) propagated by the peel
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Date: 2022-05-28
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Location: Southern Pines, NC (Boyd House garden)
Date: July 23, 2022
Elephant ears number 76NN. LHB page 189, 29-2 —?, "Variant of C
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Date: November 30 2020
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Location: Plano, TX
Date: 2012-07-01
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Location: z6a MA, My Garden
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Tuber, stolons and cormels on a typical "cannonball" C. esculenta
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Location: My garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2015-03-15
Weighing nearly 2 pounds ((1kg) on an egg cup.
Location: indoors Toronto, Ontario
Date: 2021-03-09
Young plant is forming from the taro peel.
Location: Elkhart
Date: 2019-10-23
Decided to put a small bulb in my fishtank ....

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Photo by Hamwild

Date: 2013-09-22

Date: 2013-09-22
Photo by Swayback
Location: My garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2015-07-06
Lit by the evening sun..
Location: Botanical Garden of Berlin
Location: by a river, rainforest Paraty, Brazil
Date: 2010-01-24
Location: by a river, rainforest Paraty, Brazil
Date: 2010-02-18
Location: Opp, AL  Z8b
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Two ears have grown since potting 3 weeks ago
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Date: 2016-12-11
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Date: 2013-09-03
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Date: 2017-01-28
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Mammoth
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Photo courtesy of Thierry Caro, user Bouba, Wikipedia
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Date: 2013-08-07
Mine gets very tall in a shady location.

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photo by Wildfeuer
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Location: Opp, AL
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Date: 2015-09-28
Location: Opp, AL
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Date: 2015-04-24
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Date: 2015-09-28
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Date: 2015-04-24
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Location: Plano, TX
Date: 2013-05-27
Survived the winter in zone 8a
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Date: 2010-02-22

Infestation photo by Chuck Bargeron, University of Georgia
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Date: 2010-01-24
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Photo courtesy of Longfield Gardens
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