Xanthosoma sagittifolium 'Lime Zinger' (Tannia)

Xanthosoma sagittifolium (Tannia) is a tropical flowering plant from tropical America where it has been first cultivated. It produces an edible, starchy corm.

‘Lime Zinger’ is a cultivar that is noted for producing huge chartreuse to lime green arrow-shaped leaves to 45cm long on plants typically growing to 1.5m tall. Best color when sited in morning sun and afternoon shade. Plants are grown for their foliage and not for their flowers which are infrequently produced. Flower is a greenish-white spathe enclosing a white spadix to 25cm long.