Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Colocasia Coffee Cups, 1 by bwilliams

bwilliams wrote:
Here is a comparison. The leaf on the left is Big Dipper the leaf on the right Coffee Cups. The big dipper usually has a horizontal shape to the cupped up leaf with a dark green leaf that has a slight velvet feel to it. It usually gets around 6 feet tall with a dark maroon stem and a flower with a yellow spath. The Big Dipper also produces runners. The Coffee Cups (Tea Cups) has a cupped up leaf as well usually a bit more cupped and with the leaf tip usually pointing upwards. The leaf has a sheen or shine to it and the stems are dark maroon it seems big dippers stems are darker in color. Coffee cups can get to 8 feet tall or larger and does not tend to send out runners but seems to be more of a clumper. The flowers are also have a yellow spath usually very narrow but rarely flowers and is often deformed or mutated when flowering. I will add photos of mature plants to help ID both.