Elephant Ear - Botanical

Botanical

• Elephants ear is a plant similar in shape to the ear on the head of an elephant (a plant with leaves shaped like an elephant's ear with large, thick leaves).
  • Several related genera in the family Araceae (Arums):
    • Alocasia, occurring in Tropical & Subtropical Asia to Eastern Australia and widely cultivated in Oceania and South America.
    • Caladium, ornamental plants with arrowhead-shaped leaves originally from South America but widely cultivated
    • Colocasia (taro), native to tropical Polynesia and southeastern Asia.
    • Xanthosoma, a native to tropical America with several species being grown for their starchy corms, an important food staple
  • The immature (first year) form of the temperate Old World biennial plant, burdock, a thistle in the genus Arctium
  • A name for the central Asian plant genus Bergenia, especially Bergenia crassifolia, in the family Saxifragacea which is widely cultivated as a shade loving flowering garden plant in temperate zones.