[Aroid-l] Aroid stamp=Taro=Colocasia

From: ju-bo at msn.com (Julius Boos) on 2007.09.29 at 10:14:01(16361) From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:05:46 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: Dear Aroidophiles, I have wracked my old brain, read ALL the opinions on what plant this artwork depicts, and have FINALLY come up with what I THINK the answer might be! A saying that has stood me well in my life has been --'When everything else fails, read the instructions". With this ringing in my silly old brain, and with a VERY vague memory of a Colocasia (taro) cultivar with a sagittate, NOT peltate leaf blade, I dove into Deni Bown`s FANTASTIC tome, "Aroids, Plants of the Arum family". And---AHA!!--Pg. 250!! There are on Hawaii (and presumably in other areas of the Pacific, such as Micronesia, the small Islands and Atols scattered across the Pacific between New Guinea and Hawaii), SEVERAL popular cultivars named "piko", with the posterior leaf lobes open to the navel, or 'piko', exactly as depicted in the artwork on the stamps. Perhaps the artist tasked with depicting all these 'pretty-prettys' on the sheet of postage stamps was given one of these seemingly common-in-the-region cultivars to depict in the painting?? The corms and head-sat (huli) on the same stamp are a fair and typical depiction of a taro/Colocasia cultivar. Mammy Yokum`s words, "Ah has spoken' " from the Sunday cartoon ''Dogpatch" by Al Kap come to mind. (Let`s see how many of you older ones 'out there' recall this!). I hope this solves the puzzle! Good Growing, Julius +More >>Attachment : micronesia89.jpg (0.16 MB) Ok, here it is again. it's not 16th but 12th stamp. ----- Original Message ----- From: Kyle Baker To: Discussion of aroids Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 12:24 PM Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Aroid stamp no photo available...says its a binary file,,,good lord do they make those anymore? kfb maine Marek Argent wrote: Hello, The 12th stamp in this sheet is named "taro", but the leaf doesn't look like Colocasia esculenta, rather like Xanthosoma sp. What may it be? I know that artist sometimes don't see important features for botanists. http://photos02.allegro.pl/photos/oryginal/248/70/61/248706105 Besides I read somewhere that in various regions of the world, different species are cultivated as "taro". Can anyone help? Marek Argent ___

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