The "Black Magic Taro" sounds like what you have. For my taro, which grows
to be about 200 to 300 pounds over the summer and then again over the
winter, (heated pond) I remove one of the plants that grows from the side as
a runner and start it over. The rest of the plant makes a one way trip to
the compost pile. It has jumped the pot and survives in the soil right at
the cover and now completely obscures one side of my pond. I have a major
job this fall to remove much of it, or I won't be able to get the cover on.
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RichToyBox
http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html
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I mentioned before that we have several huge elephantear like Calocasia
pond
plants. I may be remembering the name on the pot wrong. They're a deep
purple, almost black color and resemble Caladium's. The problem is
they're
so huge now I have nowhere to keep them over for the winter as the sunroom
is now out-of-room. :-( How are you folks keeping them over? Do you dry
them off like regular Caladium's? So far I've kept them over in pails of
water because of all their fine water-roots but their increasing size is
making this impossible now. Any suggestions that really work?

Thanks....
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Carol....
"I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most
people die of natural causes."
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"They laugh because I'm different, I laugh because they're all the same."
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