토란 '블랙 매직'-Colocasia esculenta 'Black Magic'

Colocasia esculenta 'Black Magic'

과명	Araceae (천남성과)	속명	Colocasia (토란속)
전체학명	Colocasia esculenta 'Black Magic'	추천명	토란 '블랙 매직'
이명		외국명	Culcas,Dasheen,Eddo,Kalo,Cocoyam,Taro

Common Name: taro  

Type: Bulb

Family: Araceae

Zone: 8 to 10

Height: 3.00 to 6.00 feet

Spread: 3.00 to 6.00 feet

Bloom Time: July to August

Bloom Description: Yellowish-white

Sun: Full sun to part shade

Water: Medium to wet

Maintenance: Medium

Suggested Use: Annual, Water Plant, Rain Garden

Flower: Showy

Leaf: Colorful

Tolerate: Wet Soil

Colocasia esculenta, commonly called taro or elephant ear, is a tuberous, stemless, frost-tender perennial of the arum family (see also calla lily and jack-in-the-pulpit) which typically grows 3-6' tall and as wide. For gardeners, it is primarily grown as a foliage plant with huge, heart-shaped to arrowhead-shaped, conspicuously-veined, downward-pointing, peltate leaves (to 2' long) on long, stout, succulent stems. As the common name suggests, each leaf purportedly resembles an elephant's ear. Calla lily-like flowers with yellowish-white spathes and spadixes are infrequently produced and usually hidden by the foliage when they do occur. This species is also commercially grown as a food crop in Hawaii (poi is made from the tubers) where it is commonly called taro.

Genus name comes from the Greek word kolokasia used for the root of Nelumbo nucifera.

Specific epithet means edible or good to eat.

'Black Magic' features unusual purplish-black leaves. It is a tuberous, stemless, frost-tender perennial of the arum family (see also calla lily and jack-in-the-pulpit) which typically grows 3-6' tall and as wide. It is primarily a foliage plant with huge, heart-shaped, conspicuously-veined, downward-pointing, peltate leaves (to 2' long) on long petioles.

Colocasia esculenta 'Black Magic' - Plant Finder (missouribotanicalgarden.org)