Eddo (Elephants Ears, Colocasia ?)

Peter trust me the most shocking stinky stuff I`ve ever eat is the durian fruit , stink like a rotted garlic , but taste like a sweet banana.

I think the list is more of USA , as there are no mantion of the Pakistany , thailandise , west indi , china and SA.

just been around my local shop and asked about suran (amorphophallus) and he told me that actually suran it`s just the indian name for yam ....need to be specific and he can get them.

while I was there he had some Caribbean dasheen as apparently now is the dasheen season.

I bought some real banana , real because they have actually seeds inside and he even gave me a coconut for free as it wasn`t good to sell. look at it




there is tomato to scale , at the end of the toothpick there are tiny bananas seeds.

 

That's a "planter"

 

Few updates of my edible eddoes.




the new one , I suspected thai


2 dasheen

strange red dot in the middle

roots problem

 

Fantastic Sal , my eddoes although looking attractive and healthy are still quite small at approx 1ft tall, they've been an interesting experiment though

 

I think I`m just lucky to have more availability of different shop around me......
Still an open chapter to me , as in winter they are getting the eddoes from different countrys and I`m actually tempted to get few more .
If you see the one where I wrote i suspected to by Thai , it`s actually another complete different variety , I suspect it an alocasia , as the leaves are pointing up , the other picture with the 2 leaves i suspected that the one on the right its actually an xanthosoma as I remember the the guy called in a different name and they roots where actually green like a small potatoes.

 

Brilliant Sal


Mine are still tiny - but I started late. The one on the left was my original from a small tuber from Morrisons. I like the one on the right which has purple stems - it came from the West Indies. Now if only they would grow to your size Sal.

 

my west indi eddoes are the one in the 3rd picture , I`ve noticed that some are purple and some have black stem.
Mine are bigger just because i got bigger bulbs and used some root growing as well

 

Sal - I think the key is to try lots of different ones. Your top one looks as good as any that I might expect from a nursery.

 

I personally think that the key is the Country of origin , the most interesting are the one from Thailand (lime green) or far east.
the top one If i remember correctly they where from southamerica , I will looking for some more during the year , Chinese shop had some as well , plus my usual shop get them from Southafrica and brazil during winter time , but it`s all about luck as he restock every week from different country.

 

john the vainy one look like mine when was small.
can`t really see it , but the leaves are really vainy.

 

Anyone brought any more to start this season?