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Re: Colocasia & Alocasia winter storage temp

From: StellrJ at aol.com on 1998.12.10 at 18:54:46(2806)
In a message dated 12/10/98 7:00:54 AM Pacific Standard Time,
hesterc@leguin.acpub.duke.edu writes:
> Those that are more "fleshy" in the root system (e.g., Colocasia
+More
> fontanesii or C. antiquorum--excuse the certain spelling) have not
> survived for me if dug up and stored;
So, am I again behind on nomenclature? Last I heard, C. antiquorum ("eddoe")
was a subspecies of C. esculenta ("taro").
Jason Hernandez
Naturalist-at-Large

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