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Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Another calocasia ID needed, 0 by Metrosideros

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Metrosideros wrote:
While Bun-Long may not throw runners that travel far from the parent plant, it still does throw runners. This is a trait of Colocasia esculenta var. antiquorum.
Colocasia esculenta var. esculenta never makes runners.

Here is a young Bun-Long plant throwing a shoot. Hawaiian Taro does not do that.