black colocasia

From: Diane Whitehead <ua024 at freenet.victoria.bc.ca> on 1997.08.26 at 18:43:04(1096) Last year I bought two Colocasias: C. antiquorum Illustris from Plant Delights in North Carolina, with purple and green leaves, and a totally dark purple leaved one with even darker stems from Humber Nurseries in Toronto. I'm not sure of the name. Diane Whitehead Victoria BC Canada

From: Donna Maroni <dmaroni at email.unc.edu> on 1997.08.26 at 21:37:14(1099) O.K. Now you've got me with all this 'talk' of black colocasias. Is there one called 'African Mask'? I seem to remember that as the name of a really incredible thing I saw in a display planting at a wholesale nursery a couple of weeks ago. Wonderful, it was! Donna Maroni +More dmaroni@email.unc.edu "Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do." --Oscar Wilde

From: Gabe Thomas <cdanielle at prodigy.net> on 1997.08.27 at 02:42:10(1101) I have Alocasia sanderiana which is labled 'african mask' Krysztof Kozminski says mine is probably really A. x amaxonica. Both are a very dark green with thick silver-grey veins, looking at mine right now I supose you could call it black. I've also seen A. micholitziana labled african mask, but it is an ochre-emerald green with chalk white rayed midribs (I nominate it a spectacular aroid). Gabe Thomas +More cdanielle@prodigy.net Donna Maroni wrote: > > O.K. Now you've got me with all this 'talk' of black colocasias. Is > there one called 'African Mask'? I seem to remember that as the name of a > really incredible thing I saw in a display planting at a wholesale nursery > a couple of weeks ago. Wonderful, it was! > > Donna Maroni > dmaroni@email.unc.edu > > "Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do." --Oscar Wilde

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