Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Who's got the biggest?, 1 by bwilliams

bwilliams wrote:
Rox and everyone else I am very glad to be a part of this group and I do enjoy answering all the odd questions and helping out as much as I can. Tropicals are my passion and I feel right at home here. I also plan to send the winner of this little contest a Alocasia Borneo giant. So hopefully with all thats on the line it will help promote a bit more fertilizer sales.
I had found it interesting that my father had done this contest years before and his memories of a 10 foot colocasia with 4 foot leaves sounds extremely interesting to me. We are trying to contact my fathers old friend who has exact measurement on his what seems to be record for the common Colocasia esculenta seen in stores.
I would be interested in seeing other froms and species that might not really make it but largest Black Magics always interest me Atlanta botanical garden had one around 7 to 8 feet tall around 3 to 4 years ago. As we came into the garden they began to cut it down for the season. It has sense been the largest black magic I have seen.

Here is a picture of big dipper over wintered now for 4 years here.