Black Ruffles Elephant Ear Live Plant - Colocasia esculenta with Dark Purple-Black Foliage for Indoor and Outdoor Gardens

Black Ruffles Elephant Ear Live Plant Overview

The Black Ruffles Elephant Ear (Colocasia esculenta) is a striking live plant known for its dramatic dark purple-black leaves with ruffled edges. This unique foliage adds an exotic touch to both indoor and outdoor gardens. The plant grows upright in a clumping habit and can reach up to 4 feet tall, making it a bold feature in any landscape or container garden.

Key Features

• Distinctive dark purple-black leaves with ruffled margins
• Suitable for indoor and outdoor environments
• Grows up to 4 feet tall with an upright, clumping growth habit
• Thrives in warm climates, ideal for tropical garden settings
• Perfect for container gardening or as a standout feature plant
• Easy to maintain with proper care

Growing Information

The Black Ruffles Elephant Ear prefers partial to full shade, making it suitable for shaded garden areas or indoor spaces with indirect light. It requires consistently moist soil that is rich and well-draining to support healthy growth. This plant is hardy in USDA zones 8 through 11 and is sold as a live plant in a 1-gallon container. Proper watering and soil conditions will help ensure the plant thrives and maintains its impressive foliage.

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.