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Gardeners' Notes:
| Rating | Author | Comment |
| Positive | susansexotics | On Jul 4, 2009, susansexotics from Spokane, WA wrote: This is a hearty plant and interesting conversation piece. The vines grow rapidly and last year it was well over 6 feet in vine length with branching. The roots do come out the side and if you don't check it you won't notice that there are new ones to cover. We keep ours in a clay pot outdoors in semi-shade in summer and indoors in winter {as it snows here} with indirect lighting and it has done well and is healthy. | | Positive | Gourd | On Oct 2, 2007, Gourd from (Zone 4b) wrote: I've had a very interesting experience with this Elephant Foot, it was inside during the winter months, as soon as it was warm, It went outside. It started to grow a stem, then the hail decapitated at about 3 ft tall, where it then grew another stem. Within one year's time here, it has grown up into a tree and is now blooming. I LOVE this plant. | | Positive | palmbob | On Nov 19, 2003, palmbob from Tarzana, CA (Zone 9b) wrote: THis is a cool looking plant- like a tortoise shell with vines growing out of it. When I first got to know this plant I assumed it was too tender to grow outdoors in So Cal, that it would rot in the cold winters. Turns out it does pretty well here. I have seen one in the ground in Huntington Botanical Gardens. It's a great pot plant and curiosity item for the 'weird' gardners, and the vines are attractive in the summers (loses most leaves and vine in the cold winters, unless well protected).
Just be sure it's planted or potted in very well draining soil. Also, roots come out the SIDES of this plant ONLY... not the bottom, so be sure you plant it a bit into the soil or it will just sit there ( a common mistake). Also this is the reason you don't plant it in a deep pot (no need, just more chance for rot) or a pot that it barely fits in... need at least a few inches all around sides of this caudex and the sides of the pot. This plant has small leaves of up to 1" in diameter. Please note the difference between this and the more common Dioscorea macrostachys of the same common name.
This plant (D macrostachys) has much larger leaves of diameter 3-4" on the average, and produces much longer, extensive vines (sometimes over 20' long). |
| Regional...This plant has been said to grow in the following regions: La Mesa, California
Pasadena, California
San Diego, California
Thousand Oaks, California
Mesquite, New Mexico
Spokane, Washington
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