Re: Colocasia & Alocasia winter storage temp

From: Lester Kallus <lkallus at earthlink.net> on 1998.12.11 at 18:12:05(2811) Well the explains why I've done so poorly with illustris & fontanesii in the past! I did even worse with burgandy stem. I found an antiquorum illustirs offshoot about 4" high and decided to transplant that rather than try to store it. Apparently that decision (before I learned what you say) has insured that I'll have that for next year. Can I assume you're suggesting I replant my fontanesii right away? How does the all black colocasia (the one with a thousand names including "black magic") do? Les +More At 08:42 AM 12/11/98 -0600, you wrote: >S >> So, am I again behind on nomenclature? Last I heard, C. antiquorum ("eddoe") >> was a subspecies of C. esculenta ("taro"). >> >> Jason Hernandez > >So? That doesn't mean every subspecies has the same characteristics. >I'll be the first >one to admit I'm not sure of the nomenclature, but there are several >that have fleshy >tubers, are stoloniferous and do *not* do well in bare root storage. >Two of these include a purple-stemmed >colocasia and also one that has green leaves heavily covered with >irregular purple blotches. >I have seen these referred to as Colocasia fontanesii and Colocasia >antiquroum "Illustris", respectively. >We can leave nomenclature to the true experts, but if I'm wrong on these >names, so are a lot >of people. > >Clarence >

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