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We touched on taro back here, and the weediness of elephants ears was mentioned over in Random, did you ever try harvesting the rhizomes for the kitchen pot? There do exist various cultivars and subvarietal forms of taro var. esculenta (too cold here for those), whereas the invasive forms mostly come from var. antiquorum. Looks like you have the latter though. 🙂
We’ve already mentioned other beauties as Californian geraniums, Mexican petunias and Century plant (American aloe), another favourite from South America is Spanish needle (Bideris Pilosa) which has a tendency to strike root in areas lacking or bereft of ground cover in liberal quantities mind you. Venturing out in a field of these in seed usually ends up in picking off thousands of seeds from fabric garments.
And, after years of plucking these myriad friends from nearly as many white cotton socks, worn out is what we are. Like this venerable sunflower:
Ah, sounds more like belladonna, many forms of colocasia (including antiquorum), alocasia and even unrelated Xanthosoma are staple in many parts of the world, all requiring boiling/steaming to remove the effects of the crystallized calcium oxalate. Neurotoxins are nuked at 80°C. 🙂
The sunflower is still alive, very bowed over now, the petals are long gone since, and the leaves are beginning to pale. Youth fleeting, age defeating. Would you recommend harvesting the flowerhead for the pot?They’re probably validum, wonderful looking plants, over here we call that kind of thing bush tucker. Growing down the gully here is stinging nettle, from which the dried leaves are added to tea for health boost. Have some of it growing in pots, too.
Old age isn’t all that bad is it? Things go grey, black and hairless and perhaps somewhat less delicious, that’s all. The flowerhead had weathered too much, so just after taking the snap the goat got in and snaffled up everything.
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