There are up to 50 tuberous or thick-stemmed perennials in the Arum family that make up this genus. \u00a0They natural occur in tropical USA and in Central and South America. \u00a0They are grown for their edible, fleshy long stalked leaves, which may be arrow to spear shaped or pedately divided into 3-18 segments and up to 5\u2019 long. \u00a0Their corms, which are also edible, as are the stems, \u00a0Inflorescences consist of a spadix within a taller spathe, and are borne intermittently throughout the year. \u00a0Commonly used as a tropical accent annual.<\/p>\n
Under glass, grow in large containers, in soil based potting mix, with added leaf mold, in moderate light. \u00a0In growth, water freely and apply a balanced liquid fertilizer every 2-3 weeks. \u00a0Water moderately in winter. \u00a0Outdoors, grow in slightly acidic, leafy, humus rich, fertile, well-drained soil in partial shade. \u00a0Avoid water logging.<\/p>\n
Prone to fungal spots, bacterial spots, <\/i><\/em>and \u00a0viruses diseases.<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n X. sagittifolium \u2013 Tannia <\/b><\/strong>\u2013 This thick stemmed, non-tuberous perennial found naturally occurring in topical US, Central America and South America grows 3\u2019 feet tall and wide. \u00a0It produces arrow shaped, often-white speckled leaves, to 30\u201d long, with broad basal lobes. \u00a0Greenish white spathes, 10\u201d long, surrounding white spadices, are borne intermittently. \u00a0Stems are edible.<\/p>\n Zones 14-15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Xanthosoma \u2013 Elephant Ear \u2013 Yautia \u2013 Tannia \u2013 Malanga \u2013 Ape \u2013 There are up to 50 tuberous or thick-stemmed perennials in the Arum family that make up this genus. \u00a0They natural occur in tropical USA and in Central and South America. \u00a0They are grown for their edible, fleshy long stalked leaves, which may […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":29645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[36,39,37,35,20],"product_tag":[],"common-name":[],"toolset-meta":{"plant-product-fields":{"is-featured-product":{"type":"checkbox","raw":""},"zone":{"type":"checkboxes","raw":"","checked":[],"formatted":""},"scientific-name":{"type":"textfield","raw":""}},"toolset-woocommerce-fields":{"_download_limit":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_virtual":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_downloadable":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_download_expiry":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_download_type":{"type":"radio","raw":""},"_regular_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price_dates_from":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sale_price_dates_to":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sku":{"type":"textfield","raw":"PDE-160251250"},"_manage_stock":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_stock_status":{"type":"radio","raw":"instock"},"_stock":{"type":"numeric","raw":null},"_backorders":{"type":"radio","raw":"no"},"_sold_individually":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_width":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_weight":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_length":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_purchase_note":{"type":"textarea","raw":""}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/2869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=2869"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=2869"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=2869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}