Colocasia esculenta var. antiquorum 'Illustris' prophouse-winter-2028 a fuller habit

a fuller habit

ideally unrelated seedlings

which is their way of saying this shrub does what a good shrub should

The hybrid

Colocasia esculenta var. antiquorum 'Illustris' prophouse-winter-2028 a fuller habitThis one comes with a paper trail. 'Illustris' was first described in 1873 by William Bull, the Chelsea nurseryman, who listed the plant as Alocasia illustris in his catalogue of new and rare plants and sold them out of his glasshouses at 536 King's Road. Nobody knows quite where they came from. Colocasia esculenta is a restless, variable species, and Bull had rivers of tropical material moving through the place, so the likeliest story is that he