Colocasia esculenta var antiquorum Black Beauty Lycoris Our original plant was shared

Our original plant was shared in the early 1990s by our mentor

We love it both as a solitary specimen as well as in a massed planting

a stunning selection of the ubiquitous Mexican Agave lophantha

but also one of the more difficult species to grow

Tradescantia pallida produces a 1' tall x 30" wide tangle of lax fleshy purple stalks with small

Colocasia esculenta var antiquorum Black Beauty Lycoris Our original plant was sharedThis superb 2006 Agri Starts sport is a stunning mutation of the popular Colocasia 'Illustris'. If you can imagine intensifying the black leaf color and removing some of the green veins from Colocasia 'Illustris', you can visualize Colocasia 'Black Beauty'. In the ground, Colocasia 'Black Beauty' is also somewhat stoloniferous like Colocasia 'Illustris', making a 4' wide patch in 3 4 years simply stunning.