Colocasia Lava Pink Violet

A Bright Seam Down the Center of Every Leaf

Every leaf on Colocasia Lava Pink Violet opens with the same bright yellow-green stripe running straight up the midrib from base to tip, glowing against the deep green filling the rest of the blade. The blade itself is broad, glossy, and smooth-surfaced, the classic heart-shaped Colocasia outline without the heavy ripple or quilting some other selections in this catalog show. It's the stripe that stands out first in every photo of this plant, not the pink.

Pink Held to the Edges, Every Time

The pink shows up as a band along the leaf margin, deep rose fading toward the edge, with its own darker pink veins visible inside the band. It stays confined to the outer edge rather than spreading toward the center, and that boundary between green blade, yellow spine, and pink margin holds up consistently leaf to leaf on this plant, more so than most Colocasia in this catalog, where the color pattern tends to shift from one leaf to the next.

A Price That Reflects How Reliable the Look Is

"Lava Pink Violet" isn't a name with a documented breeding history behind it, the same as most numbered and named Colocasia selections sold in Thailand's collector trade. What's verified is the species, Colocasia esculenta, and what's visible in its own photos. At $250, it's priced toward the top of this catalog's Colocasia range, and the reason is less about rarity claims and more about the pattern itself: a plant that reliably produces the same striking margin-and-spine look leaf after leaf is worth more to a collector than one that might or might not repeat.

Light and Moisture, Kept Steady

Give it bright, indirect light to keep the pink margin saturated, since low light tends to let variegated color fade back toward plain green over time. Keep the soil consistently moist, never fully dry, and provide warm, humid conditions through the growing season. Like other Colocasia, it dies back in cooler weather and regrows from the bulb, which is a normal seasonal cycle rather than a sign of trouble.

Arriving as a Fresh Cutting

Ships as a fresh cutting with bulb and petiole, about 20 to 30cm, the bulb wrapped in moist sphagnum moss for the trip. It reestablishes and grows new leaves from the bulb after planting, and given how consistent this pattern has been across its own photos, the first leaf it produces for you should be a reasonably close match to what's shown.