Grocery store taro - Page 2

Lilith · 04-30-2008, 07:39 AM

When you are looking for elephant ears in the store, try Latin and Carribean Markets also, not just Asian markets. You get different ones in Latin?Carib markets. Buy the ones labeled "Malanga" and "Eddoe". I got really lucky one year and got Malanga that had black stems.

Steve in France · 04-30-2008, 11:54 AM

Good tip ,I'll have to have a look in D.C.
Do you think the black stemmed ones were Xanthosoma violaceum ?
Later
Steve

Dean W. · 04-30-2008, 12:19 PM

Lilith, good suggestion. I wonder about the Indian Markets. Has anyone checked those?

Dean

Gardener972 · 04-30-2008, 04:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Dean W.

Lilith, good suggestion. I wonder about the Indian Markets. Has anyone checked those?

Dean

The only thing I've seen is "taro" and it's not labeled as to what the variety is.

Lilith · 04-30-2008, 07:20 PM

Yes, we do think it may have been X. violcaea. It is really huge growing in the ground if it gets a lot of water.

Be aware that as a food crop, you may also be getting colocasias in this mix. There are some Eastern Indian folks here who eat the tubers of Colocasia "Black Magic". They grow them in their yards for this purpose.

Mark Hall · 05-01-2008, 04:56 AM

Blimey, I wish we could get black magic over here that easy.

In the UK these are whats listed in the shops and what they growinto.

Taro or Dasheen = Colocasia Esculenta
Cocoes or cocas, cocoyam = Xanthosoma V
Eddoes= smaller colocasia
Arvi or arbi= again small Colocasia with very round leaves.

I have a friend in london who buys Cocoes and they turn out to be Xanthosoma Saggitifolia and where I get them from buying Cocoes gets me Xanthosoma Violacea.
There is also a tuber called a Red Murkhi and it is a type of colocasia withvery pointed leaves.

In Short you never know what your going to get. But thats the fun of it.

In the UK on th e Hardy tropicals web site we have all entered a competion to see who can grow the biggest leaf on a plant that is grown in the garden

I can't get hold of a Jacks Giant so I am going to try Alocasia Gigantia.

Here's a link to the thread with a few pictures.

Hardy Tropicals - View topic - Biggest Colocasia Leaf Competition (non Wilko's)

Dean W. · 05-01-2008, 10:39 AM

Mark,

Thanks for sharing the link. Those are some huge leaves.

Dean

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