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There is a panoptic range of striking colocasia variety which make excellent ornamental garden plants .
Although it is native to much warmer climes , colocasia can be grown outdoors over the summer calendar month in the UK , or grown indoors as a houseplant year - round , as Horticulturist Dan Ori explain :
“ Colocasia is a large plant to grow indoors and you’re able to give them a summertime vacation in a shelter spot in the garden in summertime .
“ They can look spectacular clustered around Cannas and Musa ( bananas ) . ”
There is a huge choice of different colours and variations to choose from , which makes these very varied leafage plants .
Choosing The Right Variety
Usually , one divisor above all others which will help oneself raiser decide which colocasia kind to spring up is the visual appearance of the large leaf and halt .
Of course , you should also look at the size of the genus Colocasia you are considering , and where exactly you plan to grow it .
It can be helpful to think holistically about your industrial plant choice , so consider not only the conditions that this plant needs , and what each cultivar looks like in isolation , but how it will look with other plant in your garden , or as part of your houseplant collection .
To help you decide which of the many colocasia cultivars you would like to tally to your aggregation , here is a inclination of some of the very good choice for UK growers .
Bear in mind that all varieties in this list are H1B hardy and should be grown in a sheltered consideration in full sun or part ghost .
1)C.esculenta‘Black Coral’
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It has abstruse violet - black leave-taking , with purple - blue veins and inscrutable purple - bootleg stem .
2)C. esculenta‘Black Magic’
The meat - shaped leaves of this genus Colocasia variety are unripened when they first go forth , then turn a deep purpleness over metre .
These 60 cm long leaves are deem on stem of a deep blackish - purple hue .
3)C.esculenta‘Blue Hawaii’
This variety has large , lightheaded green leaves , with outstanding purple vena which bear out in knifelike demarcation , particularly when the visible light shines through .
This is another Royal Hawaiian genus Colocasia .
4)C.esculenta‘Burgundy Stem’
As the name suggests , this colocasia has thick , high non-white burgundy stalk , which stand out in contrast to the green leaves and give this plant a very tropical , exotic look .
5)C.esculenta‘Coal Miner’
This genus Colocasia is also ably named , as the large dark-green leaves are deeply disperse with black as though they have been in a ember mine .
This variety also has black stems , and the mystifying leafy vegetable and blacks of the leafage are accentuate by clear green veins .
‘ Coal Miner ’ gets quite tall quite fleetly , and is said to be easy to overwinter successfully in the UK .
6)C.esculenta‘Hawaiian Punch’
This elephant ear has shiny red theme which wreak drama and interestingness to its surroundings and gives the industrial plant an alien and tropic look .
The prow are very vivid and stand out against the exuberant , fleeceable leaves .
This is another fantastic taro in the Royal Hawaiian series of colocasia .
7)C.esculenta‘Illustris’
This is another dramatic and attractive cultivar , which has large elephant auricle - same farewell with a deep , russet bronze hue , and unslaked lime - green veins which stand up out starkly against the rusty backdrop .
8)C.esculenta‘Cranberry Stem’
‘ Cranberry Stem ’ has light green leaves and reddened stalk which can stand out well and depend great alongside other darker colocasia cultivar .
9)C.esculenta‘Maui Sunrise’
This Royal Hawaiian colocasia has glossy mystifying green leaves , with creamy - white markings and veins .
10)C.esculenta‘Metallica’
This pretty new type is an strange variety of colocasia and has velvety , large blue - immature leaves with a metallic shininess , acquit on shiny , dark stems .
11)C.esculenta‘Mojito’
Named after the democratic drink , ‘ Mojito ’ is an first appearance from the United States which has chartreuse green foliage , flecked with rich purpleness and shameful .
12)C.esculenta‘Pharaoh’s Mask’
This rarefied cultivar has bass green philia - shaped foliage , with protruding veins in black , which give it an almost three - dimensional visual aspect .
The vein begin to flatten and develop over clip to give the last mask - like appearing .
This was bred from a mutant form of another varietal wine predict ‘ Dark Star ’ in the US .
13)C.esculenta‘Aloha’
This Royal Hawaiian colocasia has glossy sinister over-embellished and dark green leaves , with contrasting light - green vein and unaccented - greenish stem .
14)C.esculenta‘Diamond Head’
This Royal Hawaiian eccentric of elephant ear has thick purple to smuggled leaves , with a sheeny cultivation , and deep burgundy red stems .
15)C.esculenta‘White Lava’
This genus Colocasia , another in the Royal Hawaiian series , boasts dramatic white - cream flows of ‘ lava ’ down the centres of the dark-green leaf , shine out along the venous blood vessel .
The leave of absence also each have purple splotches where the leaf attaches to the stalking .
These are , of course , just some of the many colocasia cultivars that you could take growing either in your garden over the summer or as year - round of golf houseplant here in the UK .
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