Colocasia esculenta 'Kona Coffee'

Zn 7. Glossy coffee colored leaves. Dwarf habit.

If you love dramatic black-leafed elephant ear plants but don't have room for a monster that grows as tall as yourself, consider colocasia Kona Coffee. Sporting the same dark foliage, but growing to an easy-to-use 2 1/2 - 3 feet tall, Kona Coffee works beautifully as the focal point in mixed container plantings. Like other colocasias, the individual leaves tip downwards, showing off their full faces. The leaves are slightly glossy and held aloft on cranberry black stems. Plant with chartreuce green partners and hot colored flowers for electic combos. Why Grow Elephant Ears? Few plants are as bold and impressive as these Excellent for height and drama No need to travel across the world for a touch of the tropics Pittsburgh and Topeka, you CAN grow these. Simply treat them like cannas and dahlias, outside for the summer and sleeping in a cool, dark place for the winter.

Kona Coffee boasts a bright glossy slightly cupped foliage that ranges from dark forest green to roasted coffee-bean brown held on dark petioles earning it the name Kona Coffee.