Eddo (Elephants Ears, Colocasia ?)

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  1. sal73

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    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

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    there is tomato to scale , at the end of the toothpick there are tiny bananas seeds.
     
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      That's a "planter" :blue thumb:
       
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      Few updates of my edible eddoes.
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      the new one , I suspected thai
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        Fantastic Sal :love30: , my eddoes although looking attractive and healthy are still quite small at approx 1ft tall, they've been an interesting experiment though :dbgrtmb:
         
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          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.
           
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          Brilliant Sal

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          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. :biggrin:
           
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            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 :dbgrtmb:
             
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              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.
               
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              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.
               
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              Mine have been really slow to get going too. I got about 10 tubers from an Asian supermarket back in May, I picked out tubers that were showing green buds, they only cost 80 pence for about a dozen. I've lost half of them, some rotted others were eaten. Anyway the survivors are just starting to make a reasonable show:
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                I quite like the vein leaf markings on this one;
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                  This one looked nice with early morning dew so I was trying to get an 'arty' style photos of the water droplets, then I noticed someone trying to get into the picture at the bottom:
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                  Here's the little devil, reckon he/she has had a few of my leafs/stems:
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                    john the vainy one look like mine when was small.
                    can`t really see it , but the leaves are really vainy.
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                      Anyone brought any more to start this season?
                       
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