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Not a hard mistake to make. Some of the brugmansia leaves are variegated and can get really huge lol. Arielle: The Boston show sounds like it would be really fun! It can be tedious when the kids are small and have the attention spans of gnats lol. Some of my older kids still aren't crazy about...

Thanks destinduck! I don't know which I like better, plants or chickens. The chickens probably win but I am still crazy about plants too lol. The 'taro' is in front of the angel's trumpet I have tons of brugmansia , (aka angel's trumpet) many of mine are double, triple and quad flowers -...

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Here is another ginger plant that I have called Kaempheria Grande. This one is mostly grown for the pretty foilage and known as one of the "peacock gingers'. It does have pink flowers but the flowers emerge from the ground after the plant has been dormant for the winter. Then the leaves come...

Here is a photo of a Malanga leaf. It is a Xanthosoma. Looks similar to regular green elephant ears (EE/taro/colocasia). They are thicker waxier and marbled more than the common elephant ears though. I grow all different kinds of EE's (colocasias) as well as alocasias and a few others in that...

No it is not like ginger but tropical looking plant. It is more of a stachy root vegetable. I like finding wierd things at the grocery, farmer's market, or asian/or other ethnic specialty stores to grow in the garden. Last year, I bought some rhambutans, unusual mangos, and fresh coconuts from...

I bought my 'grocery store ginger' at a farmer's market. I could get several tubers pretty cheap that way. One time I bought a huge bag of them marked down at Save A Lot. They bag up some of their produce sometimes and sell it cheap when its about to go bad lol. The tubers were kinda shriveled...

Nice! Yours does look like the pinecone aka 'shampoo ginger'. It is supposed to have a nice smell when you squeeze the cones. People do use it as an ingredient in shampoo in Asia. The grocery store ginger (Zingiber officianale) cones do not seem to turn red...

Just for fun here are some other gingers I grow not in the edible catagory Globba pink dancing ladies Globba White Dragon White Butterfly ginger aka Hedychium (with pink Allamanda) This is a very fragrant ginger flower smells like jasmine or gardenia type fragrance.

Here is a picture of the edible grocery store ginger in a pot. It will send out these green 'cones' from the cones come tiny flowers. The rhizomes will multiply underground. That is the part that is used for cooking, the rhizome. If you were to grow them in pots and want them to multiply for...

I grow grocery store ginger as well. It smells fabulous when you crush the leaves with your fingers. Kinda lemony. They are very easy to grow. I got one to flower in a pot. The cones are green and the true flowers are little and white...not really showy but kinda cool. I have some out in the...