Re: Help i.d. these aroids

From: "Julius Boos" <ju-bo at email.msn.com> on 1998.05.13 at 15:26:30(2112) Subject: Help i.d. these aroids Dear Folks, These look like and are what we have been calling X. violaceum since I can remember; mine where grown from edible corms purchased from a Jamacan grocery as "red co co`s", BUT--- just last week I came across a plastic bag of what LOOKED like the same, purplish tubers/corms (purchased at Winn Dixie) on a table at a commercial plant nursery here in W.P.B., and when I enquired of the owner what he was going to do with them, was told that a client was paying him to grow them, and that he already had some sprouting. He took me to see the growing ones, and I checked to make sure that the corms/ tubers/rhizomes were the same purplish color, and even checked INSIDE to see if they were yellow, but they were white fleshed, but to my surprise the leaves being produced were all-green (NO purple tint on blade OR petiole) and more rounded, with a thicker texture than "regular" X. sagittifolia leaves, and were simular to a plant I have grown from the "yellow malanga" corms/etc. from a Latin store! SO--- there is all kinds of things going on with these cultivated var`s., and I suggest caution when naming them untill SOMEONE reviews the genus! For now I`d call the plant in the photo X. violaceum. Julius +More ju-bo@msn.com

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