Eddo (Elephants Ears, Colocasia ?)

Sal - you really excel with your tubers. I am very envious of your local shop. I spent an afternoon in Bradford, where I would have expected to have found some exotica, but found very little.

Yes, I did see your thread on suran. The plant looks fantastic - let alone the flower. When I Googled it I saw it described as a yam - and I then lost myself in Googling yams - as I did see some being sold in Bradford. But they were Dioscorea - of which there are many species.

I spent so much time Googling, I didn't have time to do any posting.

 

Peters , just ask today about the alocasia and he told me that he saw some last week,
told him to get me few more , finger cross ....

ps ...yam is just a word for root , suran is actually the indian word for yam .......

 

http://www.qype.co.uk/place/1510370-Shiva-Shakti-Foods-Leicester
This shop in N Leicester has a wide range of weird and wonderful stuff for anyone passing down the M1, fairly accessible by means of the A46 from the M1 or the north. There are many others, don't suppose any of them do mail order!
LE4 5HD

 

those are few variety I`ve tryed this year , all from the local asian shop , but bought in different months from November onward .