Re: [Aroid-l] Colocasia gigantea hardiness?

From: Tony Avent <tony at plantdelights.com> on 2004.11.27 at 17:40:20(12430) Aroiders: The Colocasia gigantea that we sell came from Hayes Jackson of Alabama, who got it from a next door neighbor, who moved to the US from Thailand. I suspect that most of this in the US originated from this clone. It has survived 5 degrees F here, with no mulch, but it never reaches much more than 4' in height. This form is stoloniferous, but the stolons don't run far from the parent as in C. esculenta var. aquatalis. For spring, we will have a new form, collected in 2003 by Petra Schmidt in Thailand. These plants are much larger...make that massively larger than the form we grew before. Seedlings planted in the ground in May reached 6-7' tall x 10+' wide in 5 months. In the wild, the clump was around 9' tall with leaves much larger than a normal person. This will be our first winter with this new form in the ground, but we've got our fingers crossed. I'm curious if there are more forms of Colocasia gigantea being grown out there in aroid land. Tony Avent +More Plant Delights Nursery @ Juniper Level Botanic Garden 9241 Sauls Road Raleigh, NC 27603 USA Minimum Winter Temps 0-5 F Maximum Summer Temps 95-105F USDA Hardiness Zone 7b email tony@plantdelights.com website http://www.plantdel.com phone 919 772-4794 fax 919 772-4752 "I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself...at least three times" - Avent _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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