Re: Help i.d. these aroids

From: Bob Riffle <71270.3070 at compuserve.com> on 1998.05.14 at 02:17:32(2119) Well, I gotta get one of those from you--if for no other reason than to see what a true X. sagittifolia really is. Mr. Boos and Eduardo seem to think what I have (and what is pictured at the Mansell site) is X. violacea. That was my second thought about what I have. If so, there are many cultivars here in Houston. I recently went to a mom-and-pop place at which the hubbie specializes in growing "rare" things, most of which he has no idea as to the identity. He had a number of plants whose leaf color (not to mention petiole color) ranged from the dark, almost bluish green I have, to almost black. He thought they were Colocasia forms. I couldn't argue with him, but the leaf shape and size were so alike my X's that I feel these are forms of it.

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