Tropicals & Tender Perennials: My Amorph current state of affairs - winter, 1 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
Xanthosoma robusta comes from central/south America. It was intoduced into the Pacific region by the Chinese and is still often referred to as Chinese Taro. Funnily enough China is the biggest producer of Colocasia Taro.

I only found out about the ban on bananas when I bought some seed from overseas. Next I had a stern letter from AQIS (quarantine) saying that the seed had been seized and was going to be destroyed. At least I found out about the processes for importing and how to access the online database on restricted imports.

In PNG I thought I was in 'heaven'. Madang was my favourite place. Lowland coastal so no Musa ingens there. But this is a photo I took over a fence. Had to stand on something high as the fence was above head height. In the upper right of the photo you can see the roof of the house.