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lorax · 07-19-2009, 12:34 PM

Oh, and I'm gonna go on a bit of a screed here, because I HATE the term "elephant ear" to describe the big-leaf Aroids.

First of all, the only Elephant Ears I'm aware of belong to the genera Loxodonta and Elephas. I understand the common term to mean "honking big leaves" but at the same time, since "EE" covers: Alocasia, Colocasia, Xanthosoma, Philodendron, Anthurium, and Monstera (phew, got that? Six really large and diverse genera!) it's, shall we say, somewhat less than adequately descriptive of the plants in question.

Argh.

Thank you for putting up with that, it's something that bugs me.

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