
Elephant Ear Plant: Care and Growing Guide The Spruce
Plant taxonomy classifies the most widely known elephant ear plants, or "taro," as Colocasia plants of the Alocasia genus and of the Xanthosoma genus can go by the same common name as number of cultivars also exist, including types with dark leaves (for example, C. esculenta 'Black Magic'), placing them among the socalled "black plants."