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The Silver leaf elephant ear (Colocasia fallax) belongs to Araceae (the Arum family). It is a perennial herb that is distributed to south-eastern Xizang, southern and western Yunnan, northern Bangladesh, Bhutan, north-eastern India, Nepal and Thailand. This herb grows in humid forests, valley scrub or moist shaded places along streams, and up to 60 cm in height. The leaves are cordate-peltate, pale green or slightly glaucous. The flowers bloom from March to September. The spathe is funnelform or subcylindric, green at first and turns orange-yellow to golden yellow after anthesis. The spadix is sessile, to 6.5 cm and shorter than spathe. The fruit is berry and ripens yellow. In Chinese, it is called "假芋" (jia yu).
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