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planting elephant ears Thailand Giant Elephant Ear – Plant DetectivesThailand Giant Elephant Ear (Colocasia gigantea 'Thailand Giant') Thailand Giant Elephant Ear is a massive tropical foliage plant valued for its enormous leaves, fast warm season growth, and dramatic landscape scale. Its huge gray green to blue green foliage can create a lush, resort style effect in large containers, patios, poolside plantings, moist garden beds, and tropical style landscapes. This is one of the largest elephant ears commonly grown by
Thailand Giant Elephant Ear (Colocasia gigantea 'Thailand Giant')
Thailand Giant Elephant Ear is a massive tropical foliage plant valued for its enormous leaves, fast warm-season growth, and dramatic landscape scale. Its huge gray-green to blue-green foliage can create a lush, resort-style effect in large containers, patios, poolside plantings, moist garden beds, and tropical-style landscapes. This is one of the largest elephant ears commonly grown by gardeners, making it best suited for spaces where its size can be fully appreciated. With warmth, rich soil, steady moisture, and sun to partial shade, Thailand Giant Elephant Ear brings bold texture and impressive height to indoor and outdoor displays.
Distinctive Features
Thailand Giant Elephant Ear produces exceptionally large, heart-shaped to arrow-shaped leaves that may reach several feet long in warm, humid, well-grown conditions. The foliage is typically dull green to gray-green or blue-green and is held on thick, sturdy petioles that support the plant's giant tropical form. It grows quickly during warm weather and can create a major focal point in a single growing season when supplied with water, fertility, and heat. Flowers may appear occasionally as a spathe and spadix, but this plant is grown primarily for its enormous foliage and commanding presence.
Growing Conditions
- Sun: Grows best in full sun to partial shade, with afternoon shade helpful in very hot or dry climates to reduce stress on the large leaves.
- Soil: Prefers fertile, humusy, organically rich soil that stays consistently moist while still supporting healthy root growth.
- Water: Performs best with regular moisture during active growth and should not be allowed to dry out completely in warm weather.
- USDA Zones: Hardy outdoors in USDA Zones 8 to 10 in protected conditions, while colder climates should treat it as a seasonal container plant or overwinter the tubers indoors.
- Mature Size: Typically reaches about 6 to 10 feet tall and 6 to 10 feet wide in favorable outdoor conditions, while container-grown plants may stay smaller.
- Habit: Forms a massive upright to spreading tropical clump with huge leaves rising from the base on thick, sturdy petioles.
Ideal Uses
- Focal Point: Use as a giant tropical focal point in large containers, patios, poolside plantings, courtyard beds, tropical-style landscapes, or spacious moist garden areas where its enormous leaves can stand out.
- Container Planting: Grow in a very large decorative pot where its massive foliage can create dramatic summer impact and be moved or protected before cold weather.
- Moist Garden: Plant in consistently moist beds, rain gardens, or protected low areas where steady moisture can support strong growth.
- Tropical Garden: Pair with cannas, bananas, caladiums, gingers, coleus, and dark-leaved elephant ears to create a lush warm-season display.
- Backdrop Planting: Use at the back of large beds or along spacious edges where its height and leaf size can frame lower tropical and seasonal plants.
Low Maintenance Care
- Watering: Water regularly during active growth to keep the soil consistently moist, especially in containers and hot summer weather.
- Mulching: Apply mulch around outdoor plants to conserve moisture, moderate soil temperature, and reduce weed competition.
- Fertilizing: Feed during the active growing season with a balanced fertilizer to support large foliage and vigorous growth.
- Wind Protection: Site in a sheltered location because strong wind can tear or damage the enormous ornamental leaves.
- Overwintering: Lift and store tubers or move containers indoors before frost in climates where the plant is not reliably hardy.
- Leaf Cleanup: Remove yellowing, torn, or frost-damaged leaves as needed to keep the plant looking clean and encourage fresh growth.
Why Choose Thailand Giant Elephant Ear?
- Enormous Foliage: Produces huge gray-green to blue-green leaves that bring unmatched tropical scale to containers and landscapes.
- Fast Warm-Season Growth: Responds quickly to heat, water, and fertility with impressive foliage production during the growing season.
- Dramatic Structure: Adds height, texture, and bold architectural presence without relying on flowers for ornamental impact.
- Moisture Loving: Performs best in consistently moist, fertile conditions where many bold tropical foliage plants thrive.
- High-Impact Display: Creates a lush resort-style effect for patios, pool areas, large beds, courtyard plantings, and tropical garden designs.
Thailand Giant Elephant Ear is an excellent choice for gardeners who want tropical foliage on a truly impressive scale. Its enormous leaves, vigorous growth, moisture-loving habit, and commanding presence make it a standout plant for large containers, patios, moist garden beds, and dramatic warm-season landscape designs.
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★★★★★ 5
It's a great book for learning about Greek without all of the ...
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More comprehensive than I originally thought it would be. It's a great book for learning about Greek without all of the memorization (although there is some) by an author who really knows his subject. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to get deeper into Bible study but doesn't have the time for full college courses.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2015
★★★★★ 5
Very informative and well written. Check out Phrasing.
Format: Kindle
Very informative and well written. I especially like the concept of Phrasing as an aid to meditating on the Word. I don't know Greek and got a lot of value out of it.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2017
★★★★★ 5
accessible Greek for all
Format: Paperback
I got this book for my wife, who is a complete Greek novice. She enjoys it. And it is accessible for her. The book is divided into three sections, where each section gives an increasingly in depth summary of nt Greek. This is a great idea; if you only want to know the basics, do section 1. If you want to know a little more, perhaps do section 2 as well. Section 3 starts to get into the basics that you would hit in a first year text book. This is not a replacement for a first year textbook; this is for someone who doesn't want to commit to a first year textbook. For a extra fee, you can order helpful videos done by the author himself.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2014
★★★★★ 5
Thank you for excellent service. This book is very informational and written ...
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Thank you for excellent service. This book is very informational and written in a clear and understandable manner. I have not completed reading it yet, but so far I am enjoying it.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2015
★★★★★ 4
VERY GOOD FOR ITS PURPOSE, SOME RESERVATIONS
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To same space, WM= William Mounce. BBG=Basic Biblical Greek Grammar. This is
an expanded edition of the earlier book of the same name. One will recognize many
elements of the author's BBG, but this is more of "how to use Greek for exegesis" so it
doesn't have a lot of paradigms etc. WM even puts in the "professor" character from the
BBG 3rd ed. He has chapters on word studies, translations, textual criticism, advice on
how to use commentaries, etc. It's written at an elementary level so it's an excellent
guide for someone just wanting to understand more deeply the scriptures, or to check
the accuracy of translations. If one wants to go more in depth, he/she can consult the
intermediate grammars like Gerald L. Stevens or Wallace (that one is really detailed!).
WM divides the book into sections of increasing depth - Fundamental Greek, Church G.,
& Functional G. He deals with verbal aspect in several places. He says tenses do have
the time element in the indicative mood, but it's second to aspect. Outside the indicative,
only aspect is a factor. The 3 are UNDEFINED, CONTINUOUS, and (traditional perfect)
complete w/ continuing results. Whether the traditional perf/pluperfect is THE meaning
of the tense, or an aktionsart, I will leave to the reader. Sometimes these 2 tenses
represent a state. The traditional perfect is there much of the time, determined by the
meaning of the verb and context. One should look at how the verbs are actually used
(sometimes it's really hard to tell why the perfect was used). Perhaps the old proverb
applies to Greek i.e. "the only hard and fast rule, is that there are NO hard and fast rules".
The book is helpful for students of the word. One can learn the plan of salvation from
good translations, but knowledge of the Greek can answer questions, like the seeming
contradiction between (ROM 3:23 & 1 JOHN 1:08,10) with (1 JOHN 3:06,09). Or the
question of why Jesus told Thomas to touch Him, but said to Mary "touch Me not" in
(JOHN 20:17). Understanding the (normally) continuous/repeated of action of the
present tense can answer these questions.
I believe the book has a few flaws (thus 4 stars). I think WM gets some things wrong,
like when he says a commentator should never say something in the Bible is clear or
obvious. One might say this about figurative language - like REVELATION, but if the
Bible isn't clear about say, what one must do to go to Heaven, then what's the point?
Also WM says on pg 126 (2nd "dot") a student can't "argue" with a commentator or a
translator - he/she doesn't know enough Greek. One doesn't have to be a scholar to
be able to see when someone is putting in his/her own theology (at least there are
enough clear passages in the Bible that one shouldn't have to). The great scholar
A.T. Robertson mentions this on pg 389 of his "big book" - there comes a point when
grammar stops and theology takes over. Even WM says there're commentaries he
doesn't recommend.
I recommend the book. As to the few problems, always remember what Douglas
K. Stuart said in his book on commentaries "just because one is a PHD, doesn't
NECESSARLY mean that he/she is right and you're wrong". Always let the Bible
speak for itself.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2015