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Colocasia esculenta

Colocasia esculenta

Photo by Kevin Kavi
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46.1984, 6.1423

Field Notes

Description:

Rhizomes of different shapes and sizes. Leaves up to 40×24.8 cm, sprouts from rhizome, dark green above and light green beneath, triangular-ovate, sub-rounded and mucronate at apex, tip of the basal lobes rounded or sub-rounded. Petiole 0.8 -1.2 m high. Spathe up to 25 cm long. Spadix about 3/5 as long as the spathe, flowering parts up to 8 mm in diameter. Female portion at the fertile ovaries intermixed with sterile white ones. Neuters above the females, rhomboid or irregular oblong. Male portion above the neuter. Synandrium lobed, cells 6 or 8. Appendage shorter than the male portion.

Notes:

taken at jardin botanique

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)

I think this is a black variety of Colocasia esculenta. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colocasia_esculenta
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PublishedJune 27, 2011

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