Colocasia fallax
A small, clump-forming taro relative from the eastern Himalaya and northern Southeast Asia, grown for its rounded, satiny leaves with a silvery sheen between the veins. It spreads by runners and grows in wet ground in forest and scrub, so it wants constant moisture, warmth and high humidity, and slows down in a cool winter.
Where it grows wild
Wet ground in dense forest, valley scrub and on moist stream banks. Some herbarium and field records come from cracks in limestone cliffs and from evergreen seasonal forest. It spreads by stolons into small colonies.
The GBIF records that carry an elevation run from about 1250 to 2200 m, in Bhutan, Tibet and northern Vietnam. That points to warm-temperate submontane conditions rather than lowland tropics.
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