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Other Herbaceous Plants <br />Colocasia esculenta: wild taro <br />• Perennial in stands to 5 ft tall <br />• Leaves from corms, stolons, rhizomes <br />• Leaves large, arrowhead shape <br />• Petioles attached to back of leaf blade <br />(leaves "peltate") <br />• Flowers tiny, hidden within yellow spathe <br />Ruellia brittoniana — Mexican petunia <br />• Perennial to 3 ft tall <br />• Stems mostly erect, with swollen nodes <br />• Leaves opposite, to 11 in, with pointed tips <br />• Flowers prominent, purple to white <br />• Fruit a 1 -in capsule with many brown seeds <br />Nepftrolepis eordifolia -tuber sword ..f ern <br />• Stolons many, often with small buried tubers <br />• Fronds compound, erect, to 3 ft tall <br />• Leaflets crowded, with small lobe at bases <br />• Rachis with hair-like, 2 -colored scales <br />• Fertile & sterile fronds similar in shape, size <br />Solanum viarum — tropical soda apple <br />• Bushy perennial to 6 ft tall <br />• Stems with scattered, small, hooked prickles <br />• Leaves alternate, angle -lobed, velvety <br />• Flowers white with recurved petals <br />• Mature fruits leathery skinned, yellow <br />