I doubt that these leaves will hold true but they are pretty cool looking!
Check out the cool leaves on my Colocasia Coffee Cups
Heres another
I have one more
hi grub, here is a pic of my coffee cups taken in september. they do hold water nicely.
The light levels can change leaf color dramatically in Colocasias. I find lower lights may show the veins more while in some cases in shade you get green leaves in full sun you will be extremely black leaves. I was able to get Coffee cups to flower last summer and I also found a slight variegated mutation on the bottom leaves of one plant. It is not enough to go crazy over but it is interesting. Here is a picture of dark variegation under the leaves of Coffee cups.
it is interesting. colocasia leaves are so beautiful
I call mine Colocasia Coffee Cups 'Freckles' and it is now available on Ebay for the low initial bid of $85. Did I mention its rare? Just kidding. I agree with the light thing. I have had plants at the end of a season and beginning to show strange patterns on their leaves.....Pretty cool though sometimes
I have one I got online but they called it Tea Cups. Is that the same thing?
Same plant. The original plant came from Thailand and was named Coffee cups. I am not sure why but after the plant was cloned here the name Tea cups was put on the plant. It may have just been confused or someone renamed it?
I've been confused with this too, because I got Big Dipper, Tea Cup, and Coffee Cups and the names seem to get mixed between the three a lot. I thought I got the tea cups because it was suppposed to be a shorter more compact 2-3 foot version of the 6 foot big dipper
I just did a google search and found all three to be called each other quite a bit
The tea cup and coffee cup are the exact same plant. Big dipper is one I named years ago and is a much different. It is most likely that Coffee cup is a fontensii hybrid or mutation. Big dipper is a mutation off of violet stem. The big dipper with have slightly velvety type leaves compared to the coffee cups shinny slick leaves. Both have dark stems and big dipper has shown to be much hardier. Here is a pic comparing the leaves.
