This spring I bought a "Black Magic" Colocasia esculenta from a local nursery.  This plant is always very thirsty.  It did not do well until I put it at the outlet end of our little catfish pond.  It has thrived there.  It spread by sending out running shoots, which can be dug up and transplanted.  One such shoot broke off when I first got it home, so I planted it in a big pot on the patio.  As long as it was kept standing in water, it was happy there, but by late summer it was sending out running shoots, so I moved it to the inlet side of our catfish pond (the inlet is culvert that runs under our road).

    Here is a photo showing the Colocasia with the catfish pond in the background.

And here is a photo taken at ground level.

    After a good rain, the creek fills up.

Horticultural info on this Colocasia

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This page most recently revised on 30. October 2005.