Tropicals & Tender Perennials: ID on EE please, 1 by bwilliams

bwilliams wrote:
ID well it looks to be Xanthosoma Sagittifolia and your other one looks to be lime zinger. The way to tell a Xanthosoma is easy once you know what to look for.
All xanthosomas have white sap in the leaves
All Xanthosomas have a vein that runs around the edge of the leaf like a out line of the leaf.
Most if not all have a split for the back lobes that runs to the stem. Meaning a colocasia will usually have a heart shaped leaf and a xanthosoma will have pointer lobes that run all the way to the stem. If you look at a xanthosoma leaf head on and pull the lobes apart you should be able to see the stem. You cannot do this with colocasia caladiums and most alocasias.

Preverted picture time! Here is a picture of me standing behind a huge Xanthosoma sagittifolia leaf. You can see my thumb AND Yes that is my thumb LOL. This is away to ID xanthosomas the leaves attach back at the stem.