Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Colocasia affinis var Jenningsii (aka Dwarf Jenningsii), 1 by bwilliams

bwilliams wrote:
Here is my list of forms I have grown or seen.

Colocasia Affinis jenningsii
Colocasia affinis jenningsii with no silver mid vein

Colocasia heterchroma
Colocasia heterchroma 'Dark Shadows New form from Tony Avent

Colocasia Fallax
Colocasia Fallax silver dollar
Colocasia Fallax vein form

Colocaisa Species this is the dark leaf form with green veins I show above. It maybe a unknown species.

All of these species are small growers with odd small flowers unlike most other Colocasia species. I have grown most of these a few are harder to grow than others. Affinis and a few other have dormant periods were they do not grow and tubes are easily and often lost in this state. Some can easily be seen growing side by side in the wild and a few photos I have seen you can see what looks like natural hybrids between Fallax and affinis or Heterchroma have taken place. Their would be a ton of new forms of these in the wild but few people collect these and few are rarely offered. They make great ground cover plants and are fairly tough. Most are hardy to zone7.