Dioscorea elephantipes

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Cactusgirl
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Re: Dioscorea elephantipes

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One of mine is now sending out green leaves on its vine. Clearly asking for a drink!
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Re: Dioscorea elephantipes

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Ospreywatcher wrote: ↑Sun Aug 26, 2018 11:34 pm Further to my original post I am very happy to report that my D.elephantipes has started to send out a new vine despite my efforts to kill it off during the summer by giving it a tad more water than it desired. After cutting of the dead roots I replanted the rootless caudex in new compost and positioned it in a shaded corner in the house. Early days yet but this is around the time of year it always comes back to life and hopefully there will be fresh roots growing too.
Nice one. They are tough old plants.
Having said that mine woke up right in the middle of the recent heat wave and promptly scorched half of the new leaves, there is another new vine appearing now it is getting colder so looks like this will be a two vine year
Regards Keith.

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