RE: Aroids

From: Stangl Frank B Civ OC-ALC/LPPSB Frank.Stangl at tinker.af.mil> on 2001.04.02 at 20:41:53(6133) Thanks for the reply. Yes, they do so well that my front yard is used by my neighbors for giving directions in our neighborhood! From what I can remember, the leaves do the U shape before reaching the stem - peltate?. The bulbs came from a lumber yard that advertised them as just plain old elephant ears. Have I learned a lot in the past week about this family Araceae!!!! Noticed that some of the sellers have some slightly different names for the same plant i.e. picture VS picture. The bulbs size are sized from larger than a softball to the size of a Nerf football, but mostly roundish, and do they put on the bulbs!!! I try to leave them planted unless we are due for a cold winter like the last one, they had been planted for two seasons, and I separated five 5 gallon buckets from them, out of just seven "Mothers". I did have a couple of plants that started off of runners. When I transplanted them they went into shock for a week and them snapped out of it. The blooms are a light yellow to white and approximately four to five inches long. You mentioned Xanthosoma Sagittifolia, beautiful plant, wish I had one. My wife has started talking about removing a tree from our backyard and putting in a swimming pool/water garden. I told her that it would be easy to turn our whole yard into a different world. Think she hates the WEB now!! I told her about some of the recipes and types of dishes that can be made from these. Just have to surprise her along about Halloween with a few. I would greatly appreciate some different types. Do you drink cappuccino? I could swap some wonderful flavors from here for them with some of my bulbs if you'd like. Thanks again for the mail, Frank Stangl +More Del City, Oklahoma -----Original Message----- Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 10:38 PM To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L Subject: Re: Aroids -----Original Message----- To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L Date: Friday, March 30, 2001 12:28 PM Subject: Aroids Dear Frank, Sounds like you have been growing these things with great sucess! I`d like to try to determine which variety of Colocasia esculenta you are having such sucess with, if it is C. E. esculenta, the 'dasheen' variety, or C. e. antiquorum, the 'eddoes' variety, or maybe even Xanthosoma sagittifolia, so will ask a few questions---are the leaves peltate or sagittate, in other words are the 'inner sides of the 'V' in the leaf blade partially closed in to form a sort of 'U', or do they stay open in a 'V' down to the petiole or stem? Where did your plants originate?? Are the tubers which they produce elongate, say 7-10" long by 2-3" thick, or more oval and round, and are multple small tubers produced, or just a couple larger rounder tubers?? I may be able to get a couple other cultivars locally here in Florida for you, some are quite cold tollerant. I can also send you GOOD recipes for your excess tubers!!! I look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, Julius Boos W.P.B., Florida >> I have been growing Colocasia Esculenta (Green Taro) successfully in Oklahoma now for four years and would like to add some different varieties. Am interested in any of this family of Araceae that will grow in a heat factor of 8 and hardiness zone 7. Currently, my seven bulbs have reached a size of from six inches to the largest at ten inches. Four of my ten plants bloomed with seed, but I did not know how to collect till finding this Web site. My plants grow over four feet tall with leaves up to (and over) eighteen inches wide by two feet long. Last fall, when I dug them up to prepared them for winter, I had to give away five each 5 gallon buckets full of various sizes from 1 inch to 4 inches in diameter. Previous years have rated three to four buckets. I would like to know if anyone would like to, or could, make a swap for some of their varieties?? I can send anything from just coming out of dormacy to stalk/leaf up to almost 12 inches. Or I will buy, because finding different varieties here is impossible. Thanks<<

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