Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Kauai Trip, 1 by rox_male

rox_male wrote:
My family and I just returned from Kauai.

Among the fantastic sites and places to visit and the Allerton and McBryde gardens (where they filmed part of Jurassic Park).
The following pics are from McBryde. They are in the process of updating their inventory, and most of the plants that I photographed were not marked.

How about we try to identify them?

Pic # 1.
This was in their edible garden and is may be a "native" Hawaiian or Japanese taro.
Hawaii has more than 86 varieties of Colocasia esculenta (taro) which have been inventoried and maintained at the Kauai Research Station (KARC/CTAHR); at one time there were more than 300 varieties. Plants are distinguished based on a variety of characteristics including stem, leaf, and piko (spot on leaf where stem joins), lihi (edge/margin of stem where emerging leaves branch out [petiole groove]) and corm color and leaf shape.

This one has reddish/purplish petioles (important: the color runs up to the leaf unlike the eleeles) with a prominent purple piko and had med/dark green leaves with slight undulations. I don't see a prominent lihi. Some leaves are slightly concave . Note the veins on tops are green and on the bottom are purple.

Ideas?