Beginner Gardening: Elephant Ear , 1 by purpleinopp

purpleinopp wrote:
Just took this pic of some Canna rhizomes I dug up for a swap and to mail some to a friend. The blue circles are where new foliage will appear. The red lines are where I would be confident about cutting them into smaller pieces.

Elephant ears make tiny bulbs, usually adjacent to the mama bulb, more like an onion. If you look closely at the base of the clump on the right in the 2nd pic below, you'll see a much thicker cluster of stems. That's the original bulb I put in that spot last spring. By now, it has produced several pups at its' edges. Those can be cut loose if necessary, or may snap off by gently pushing them down and away from the mama bulb. As long as the babies have some roots of their own, they can be separated from the mama whenever you want.