Colocasia esculenta var. antiquorum 'Illustris' prophouse-winter-2028 Set within pollen range of

Set within pollen range of female selections

but arrives early enough to feed the first bees of the year

In the late 1970s a run of brutal winters at the US National Arboretum in Washington

the shagbark hickory

Colocasia esculenta var. antiquorum 'Illustris' prophouse-winter-2028 Set within pollen range ofThis 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