RE: Unknown132 (fwd)

From: Don Burns <burns at mobot.org> on 1997.07.03 at 13:57:30(910) Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 08:33:47 -0500 To: aroid-owner@mobot.org Subject: Unknown132 +More I´d like to try the ID of the unknown aroid No.132, from Steve Marak. In my opinion, it´s a Xanthosoma violaceum Schott from Central America. It´s cultivated all over the (third) word because its tubers and leaves are edible. In Brazil, we call it `Inhame-roxo` and it is widely used for ornamental purposes here in Brasilia. By the way, they must be blooming right now here. I hope it helps, Eduardo.<< Dear Friends, I agree with Eduardo; I have this exact plant grown from commercially bought corms from a local Jamaican grocery as "red co-co"; it probably should be called X. violacium untill a review of the Genus Xanthosoma is done. There is another var. of Xanthosoma here in W.P.B. that is MUCH blacker (no, not a Colocasia, it`s a Xanthosoma !) which I supplied to the Nat. Zoo for their "Amazon" exibit. Julius ju-bo@msn.com

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