Water Gardening: Elephant Ear?, 0 by BogweedBuck

BogweedBuck wrote:
There are about 5 hundren million billion quadrillion species of elephant ear out there, Jen. Any clue which ones you have?

Unless they're the dwarf variety, I would pot them seperately ... unless you're using REALLY big pots.

Insofar as sun & shade, I will wait to hear which ones you think you might have. As a general rule, they ALL do acceptibly well in the shade, and many are quite happy in full sun (although, get this, some varieties actually grow SMALLER in full sun). Well, okay ... there are a few that are not heavy shade lovers, but anyhow ...

Aren't these wonderful plants, tho?!?! I am trying to collect all 5 hundred million billion quadrillion of them! lol

(actually, there's 3 major genus here: Alocasia, Colocasia and Xanthosoma. Check out the Plant Files, I think you'll be happily amazed at what a diverse family of plants this is)

My personal favorite is this guy (I seriously need to get a better shot that really shows off the color variations of each leaf)

This message was edited Jul 20, 2005 11:35 AM