I know this isn't the plant trading forum but ya'll are the ones who might want these. I've been digging the everlasting, you can't kill me EEs for Buck and have enough for someone else. I'll post a pic of a small plant below. If you need something that will fill a nice 5 ft. spot, these could be it. Just be careful, THEY DO SPREAD! I'll send for postage. I'd like to mail tomorrow, so first come, first gets.
Leslie
Hi Jess,
You've got it! If you'll just mail a check for the amount of postage on the box that will be fine. Are you in the exchange?
Leslie
That's all for now. If anyone else wants these, let me know and I'll put you on a waiting list. I can probably send another set out next week. They grow like weeds. No.........faster!
Leslie
Are those the running type ee's?
I'd love to be on the list!!! LMK please :)
Hi eden,
I love your name! It awaits me too. If running means that they travel underground and pop up here and there then, yes, that's the kind I have. They are the devil to get rid of if you don't want them but they sure would fill up an area. They weren't nearly so bad until we redid the bed this summer. We took out a tree from that area and I think the EE root got chopped a little and went crazy to retaliate. I know next to nothing about EEs, but you can ask Bogweedbuck as I sent some to him a while back.
Leslie
I have this one that is a running ee, but it's runners usually run on top of the ground then root here and there. I wonder if is is the same as what you have. It definetly fill up a space quick, and best of all they are hardy for me. Oh and thanks for the compliment LaLambchop ;).
This stuff is NUTS! (I'd definitely take a few more!)
I've had small pieces of root spawn a whole new plant. Granted, these may have been tiny little "cormettes" in the making with a tiny piece of root in tow, but all the same ... this stuff is really tough!
EDEN ... I *think* that's an entirely different beast than what LambChop has at home. I can't tell for certain as all the leaves I have on mine are still what I think of as "juevenile" leaves, which often vary from their more adultish form. What you have their looks like a type of Colocasia (I am not the expert here, tho ... someone like BWilliams is, without question, probably our best source of information around here. Lambchop's beasts from the botanical un-dead look more like a variety of Xanthosoma ... but again, I'm not a resident expert.
First one is definitely a Xanth.
Probably X. sag. the juvie leaves look like that.
Second is Colocasia probably C. e. and cultivar maybe "Ruffles".
Ric
Breeze, you're on the list.
Leslie
Count me in if you have any left.
If you would like I also have EE's popping up everywhere. I would be glad to send you one but beware, they get BIG.
Hi Knot,
You're on the list but will be in the next set. Send your addy.
Thanks for the offer of your EE but I am trying to get rid of these in my garden!
Leslie
Hi,
I sent boxes today to:
Jess
Breeze
Buck.
Knot
That's all I have for now. I'll have more in a week or two.
Knot, I also sent you seeds for crape myrtles. I don't know if you can use these or not, but I was doing some for others and thought of you since you have the tropical environment.
Enjoy!
Leslie
Thank you Leslie! Will send postage out as soon as I receive! Thanks !
Ruffles doesn't run, it makes little pups right against the stem. I bought a colocasia several years ago, I think it was an esculenta type, made runners everywhere! It was not tall and was all green. I put them in pots and they sent runners over the sides and onto the ground. I didn't bring it to TX, didn't want the plant police to come after me, lol.
I agree, Lambchops look like my Xanthosomas. They are better behaved where the soil is dry, but in damp, rich soil they go nuts!
Thanks Cala I didn't know that about 'Ruffles'.
A running EE I could use here! lol
Did it ever over-winter?
Ric
LaLambchop,
Your so sweet. Thanks so much. I am still working on doing my zip code list of everything I have so feel free to ask for whatever interests you.
I'll get a check out for postage asap.
Thanks again,
Karen
Karen,
You have a wonderful collection of plants. I would love to see pics of your property sometime. I have 5 little ponciana seeds I'm growing. Would you like one when they get alittle bigger? I see that you have one already, but they are so beautiful.
Leslie
Ric, some of the running ones would overwinter in TN, especially if they were mulched. Not all would survive, but always enough to get them started in the spring!
Interesting Cala.
I've seen them offered before.
Were you a 7 there in TN or a 6?
Ric
7a in TN. There are some ears that grow wild down in MS and LA that send out runners 4 or 5 ft long, they are some kind of colocasia.
WOW Leslie! That was fast! Thank you so very much :) Return postage is in the mail today..Thank you!
LaLambchop,
I just started listing them. I probably have 75 to 100 more and am putting an order in with a nursery on Puerto Rico for more. I just have not had time to list them.
Some are because most (such as my lobster claws, heliconias and gingers have not bloomed yet).
The others I am still trying to identify. We are a small island about 7 miles from PR and only have a few nurseries and they do not speak english and I am still working on my spanish. We have only lived here about 18 months.
I will post some photos on the photos forum soon.
breeze and Jess,
Did they look OK? This is just the 2nd-3rd time I've shipped plants. Was the whole Package soggy like one I sent this week? It seems I'm learning with each set.j
Leslie
They were in pretty good shape..two leaves were iffy and yea..you might want to try just a little less water. But Pretty darn good! Thanks.
Well I see you all might want a ID on it. Many of you are right it is Xanthosoma Sagittifolium a common weed in florida. I grow them myself they are great plants if we have a hot summer and plenty of water they can get to a monsterous size. Now to help you guys ID your plants. Colocasias will have a heart shaped leaf usually the thing is the back lobes will be fused and Xanthosomas will not. So when you look at a leaf and see were the stem meets the leaf if you are able to see the stem through the cut in the leaf its a xanthosoma and if not its more likely a colocasia. Now their are other species that can mess this up specially Alocasias but for the most part this should help out also Xanthosomas will have white sap.
Here is a picture of Xanth Sagittifolium mature.
Awesome Brian! Man you really know how to grow em don't you. I do believe you have already found your eden, lol.
Thanks for the ID Brian. I'm glad they're not that big here.
Leslie
Really--your ears always seem to look like they are growing in the jungle! hehehe I WISH some of mine got that big but since they need to be cut to the ground here in Fall so they won't freeze I don't know that they ever will get that big?!! Unless I kept them in the house, in which case I don't think there is ROOM for all my ears to get that big! hehehe Bonnie
I would make room for those big beauties!
But see....they are ALL Beauties to me and there simply isn't room for all the ones I like if they all got this HUGE!! hehehe Not that I wouldn't want them! I wish, I wish, I wish!!! Bonnie
I feel you on the space situation Bonnie. I am always trying to maximize the space I have. Wished I had about 10-20 acres. My passions are many, and I wouldn't have any problems filling it up, lol.
I have one Colocasia that usually starts off with a divided leaf early on in the season (first and second row) and then pushes up the typical "fused" leaves afterwards. A funny duck it is.
ANYHOW ... Brian, would you be interested in playing with this guy, or is it entirely too common for your work? It's a run-of-the-mill esculenta, but it has some rather pronounced veining in the leaves, and they get well over 8' every year for me, despite the intense abuse I subject them to in the winter. I've always wondered what it would be like to cross this with a black ... and now that you've turned me on to your "China Piink" I am even more curious to see a cross between this guy and a black and then cross that result back into yours from China. But alas, that's an area of horticulture I just have never delved into.
I actually have this form. I would love to hybridize with it but rarely see flowers. I usually do not plant many of them but this year in hopes of breeding I made three large clumps and yet non have bloomed. I am still waiting. One of my hopes is to get black magic onto this one or Gigantea. But so far blooms are so far and few between. But I will be working on it even this winter.
Well .... I figured you probably had this one. I'm still unsure as to how common this amount of veining is. I've only kept Colocasias until this year and most of mine don't show this much veinage (that's a technical term, right? :o) I really need to make a minute or few to take some pics of this plant when there's a little bit of back-lighting in the late afternoon. The veining really jumps out then!
Bummer on the flowering, though. Mine bloom profusely! (just kidding) In the 3 years I've been keeping this one I've not noticed any blooms ... but this is the first year I tried to look for them. We now have 5 massive clumps of this stuff ... I keep giving it away, trading it off, and even just letting some stay in the dirt to die each year and it's still taking over! I suspect this is about as big as this one will get, it's right at 8' tall right now. After this leftover rain from the hurricaine passes, I'll take some pictures of Katie standing under this beast. She's a wonderfully attractive, 6' tall Scandanavian gal! That out help give the size of this plant some basis of comparison (and prove to be much easier on the eyes than a pic of me ever would! :o)
