Tropicals & Tender Perennials: How many forms of colocasia are out there?, 1 by bwilliams

bwilliams wrote:
I first got excaliber years ago at Fairchild it was collected by Julius boos from trinidad I believe. He is the expert on Dracontiums and Caladiums. It does not look like the normal forms because it' is a species of caladium picturatum. Which looks a bit arrowhead looking rather than the common caladium look. Sorry for sounding a bit forward on the reply though I dont like saying actually LOL but it does slip. I believe the problem was when Agri starts TC the plant they placed it as a Colocasia and gave it a culture name excaliber. I think Randy at agri starts knows it is a caladium but it has not been changed maybe it sells better if people think it is. Here is another species of picturatum