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. violaceum \u2013 Blue Taro <\/b><\/strong>\u2013 This tuberous perennial grows 8\u2019 feet tall and 6\u2019 feet wide. \u00a0It produces arrow shaped leaves, to 30\u201d long, with almost triangular lobes, and dark purple leaf stalks, 12-35\u201d long, have creamy white veins above purple veins beneath and at the edges. It intermittently bears pale yellow spathes, 12\u201d long, around violet, dark red, or white spadices. \u00a0Edible tubers are pink inside.<\/p>\n Zones 11<\/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":29701,"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-160251251"},"_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\/2870"}],"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=2870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=2870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}