These are only the fourth and fifth leaves on this rascal and they're already 32" long by a little over 22" wide. Is it destined to get larger?
Holy Smokes!...How much bigger?
Another view......they're huge!
Very very much bigger Don.....which one is that?
Colocasia bigassleafifolia....lol. I don't know the species Happenstance. It was a gift. And now I think it was a joke gift from a dear, diabolical friend...lol.
Oh I have that one too!! Plus a couple of named ones that aren't half as big. :-)
If you have a slightly soggy spot or better yet a water feature.......that's the spot for it. Brackish water or not, it won't care. We have them growing in and around our pond....some are already 5' tall (they die back in the winter). Last year they were a year old and grew to over 6' with HUGE leaves approaching about 36". We get a lot of wind here, which they don't like....shreds the leaves, but they are beautiful.
dr.don.....
if you bought the blub at wall mart. it is some type of essculet.
To me it kinda looks like colocasia giganta and there is two strans of it in the US. one is pretty cheep and the other is very expensive the one that comes from Thiland... you can tell giganta from other strans because it is produces blubs not stolon fibers "runners". the one from thiland "how ever you spell it only gets huge at the tip of fl. where it doesn't freeze. it will get big. but not as big as where it doesn't freeze.
but if it is gigenta "how ever you spell it" it needs a bigger pot...
ely
hiya Happenstance,
I've got a pond on the drawing board right now and will certainly move this monster to that location when planting time comes for that project...after I finish the ones I'm working on now...lol.
hiya elyearcrazy,
nice to meet you! If it is indeed Colocasia gigantea it needs a bigger pot? The pot it is in is a 25 gal pot that has almost 3 cubic feet of potting soil in it. Holy Smokes, that's a lot of plant in a single season. I love it!
thanks to you both,
Don
if it is colocasia gigantea, if you ever go to move it you will have to break the pot unless it is the way the pic is taken... "hole looks small..."
ely
LOL I meant to post earlier that you had better expect it to get much bigger. I guess the post did not go. The leaves on them here have gotten to 3x5' and I am in zone 6 and only get to leave them out 5-6 months tops. I have to say, I love the botanical name of yours. ROTF
ha-ha, that was hilarious don. BEAUTIFUL plant.
drdon here is a picture of my bigassleafifolia. I have notice with each new leaf they get bigger and bigger. This is the first year for me growing EE's.
I have renamed mine as will, I like the new name.
Linda
These are some smaller EE's I had gotten these off ebay and they were small bulbs and I didn't know where I was going to put them.. I have this tractor tire that has rose moss in that comes back volunteer every year, so I planted them at the back, I didn't think they were going to come up, then overnight they started coming up and I think in a month it will be quite a show.
is colocasia bigassleafifolia edible also like the smaller taro? i love taro and just cooking some right now in tamarind soup.
moonglow I have been told by a chinies woman that the ones with the red dots where the leaf hits the stem are the ones safe to eat. might want to ask aloha
ely
thanks, ely. i just found the thread where carol posted taro info.
=)
Yummie,
Taro and tamarindo?....sounds fabulous. Got a recipe? or is it one of those I've got some of this and that six years ago and now it's my fave kind of thing?
lol.
Don, who is lucky his given name isn't Moonpuppy...lol. Son of hippies, I'm a true SOH...;-P
best.
don, you crack me up. still laughing when i see EEs in the yard. for sure my neighbors think i'm a nut.
tamarind soup (for me) is the quintessential filipino dish, and taro kicks it up a notch (i watch too much tv). there are probably a hundred ways to make it, but i try to make mine simple.
shopping list:
tamarind soup base (sold in asian stores, but here in the city, safeway carries it)
taro (peeled and sliced thinly)
onion (sliced thinly)
tomato (quartered or however you want)
2 lbs prawns (i just trim the "whiskers")
spinach (bok choy is also good)
cooking time: 20 minutes or less.
cooking directions:
in a pan with about 5 cups of water, pour (half of the contents) tamarind soup base and stir to dissolve. add taro, onion, tomato. bring to a boil. simmer until taro is tender.
add prawns until done. then spinach.
you can make this dish with pork, beef, fish...and of course your choice of veggies.
=)
ha-ha, moonglow is my favorite tube of paint. my name is more unreal.
annapet
This message was edited Jun 10, 2005 3:26 PM
I'm making it tomorrow for lunch. It sounds marvellous. We don't have Safeways down here anymore so I'll just go to Wild Oats/Henry's.
Thanks you so much for the recipe, Pam and I both love Asian fare, and we use so much tamarind in our daily diet I've often considered changing my name to Leguminosaea, but it sounds too Pea Brained...lol.
best,
Don
This message was edited Jun 11, 2005 12:22 PM
ha-ha, i keep on looking back at your c. bigassleafifolia. please keep us posted how big it gets and when it sends out some shoots.
the ee's i have here are definitely the edible kind. i just saw another thread that inspired me to start a tropical patch. except mine will just be a taro patch for now...
when you get to make your tamarind soup, let me know how it turned out. next time, try the taro leaves in coconut cream.
=)
give my warm regards to pam. from another rose addict.