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growing elephant ear plant 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
Shorts
Color: Sky Blue, Size: 36
Love these shorts, I was very happy with the look, color, weight, and fabric quality. Great value. I wish they had a light pink color in the same style and fabric.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2025
★★★★★ 5
Practicality First
Color: Brown/Black, Color: Brown/Black
This is a simple, no frills watch from a well regarded brand.
It has good water resistance, good durability, and high accuracy.
If all you need is a way to tell the time that won’t fail you, buy this watch.
As it’s solar powered, it doesn’t need to be wound or have a battery replaced or charged in the foreseeable future. This longevity and low effort maintenance was the most important feature for me, and part of why I chose this over a digital watch (along with digital watches potentially being bricked from firmware).
I shouldn’t have to say this but obviously it doesn’t come out of the box charged and working - you need to leave it by a window or something for a day. After that, it will always work so long as you wear it outside every so often. The battery life is claimed to be 2 months but I’m not about to leave it in a closet for 2 months to test this. This is a newer model than the version I’d been trying to buy and it appears to have a more readable face as well as luminescent watch hands which are helpful for telling the time in the dark. It’s also nearly silent so ticking won’t be an issue.
My only complaint is the watchband. It’s a serviceable quick release band, but it’s a bit on the short side and I wanted something of higher quality so I replaced it with a Hirsch 120mm/100mm watchband that actually fits and is altogether nicer than the out of the box band.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2024
★★★★★ 5
The simplest watch there is
Color: Khaki/Black, Color: Khaki/Black
I have a 7-inch wrist and I would like to think that it's the average size (judging from the pictures I have seen from other reviews.) The watch came in from Amazon with zero charge so I charged it for about an hour using a solar watch charger and that brought it back to life. I found that you could charge a solar watch from empty to full in about 5 hours. What I like about this watch is that it fits and feels right on my wrist, is not ostentatious, not flashy, and doesn't crave for attention. You could read the time very well outdoors and even indoors. Even in the dark, the lume is laid-back, but you could still tell the time from the triangular hour markers and the hour and minute hands of the watch. I also like that it has a screw-down case back. I like to tinker with my gadgets and a screw-down case back allows me easy access to the battery when it's time to be replaced. It's also solar-powered, has a 4-month power reserve, an easy-to-operate crown, and has sapphire crystal to boot!
Fun fact: I found out recently that they made these watches in Timex's watch factory in Cebu, Philippines. By purchasing it from Amazon, it actually did a return trip back here in the Philippines!
Update after a month's use: I changed the strap with a black NATO one and it looks even better with the matte finish of the case. The charge appears to remain strong. I'll probably notice the weird erratic second hand movement (the watch does this when the charge is about to drain) after 4 months. Until then, it's not time for a recharge.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2024
★★★★★ 4
Great specs but not much else.
Color: Khaki/Black, Color: Khaki/Black
The 36mm form factor wears small. Even on my 6-7/8" wrist. It could be that I've gotten used to the more modern 40-42mm case diameters on my other watches. Or that the 12mm thickness compared to its slender diameter gives it an odd proportion that makes the watch appear a bit smaller than it already is. But either way, it does feel small on the wrist. So if you havent tried this one on in person, be prepared for that. If you have very small wrists or prefer the aesthetic of smaller watches, then this size will be great for you.
The value of this watch is difficult to pin down. In one sense, well the specs speak for themselves. And Timex has a proven history of reliabilty. But I ranked "value for money" at 3 stars, because at the end of the day you're paying $170 for a Timex. Something about that feels... weird. Timex doesnt have quite the heritage or prestige of say Citizen or Seiko - or heck even Casio for that matter. Its just a very difficult price to justify for a Timex field watch despite the great specs. I hoped in person the dial and hands would be at least slightly more impressive than they appear in the stock photos. But, no they are just as flat and blasé as in the stock photos.
If you're looking for a no-nonsense solar field watch with all the specs this watch has and in this smaller 36mm case diameter, there are very few options out there. Especially under $200 (which is why I purchased it). So in that regard, I suppose its worth it. But at this price point I would like to feel a little more proud of whats on my wrist, in terms of aesthetics and design. And I dont really get that with this watch. I even think the regular quartz version of the the Timex Expedition at around $40-50 has more wrist appeal than this watch. I do like the style of the syringe shaped hands, generally speaking. But keep in mind that a Hamilton this is not. There isnt really the level of detail put into the design to dazzle the eye. Kind of a shame really because with these specs, this watch had a lot of potential to be a classic. Havent decided if Im going to keep it or send it back.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2022
★★★★★ 5
Best watch I've ever owned in my 60yrs
Color: Brown
I purchased this 36mm Expedition North Solar Field watch about one month ago, for roughly $150, and I couldn't be more impressed. When I took it out of the box the first week of January, it had no charge...because it was in a dark box in freezing temperatures. No problem, I shined light from a regular 500 lumen rechargeable flashlight on the watch face and the second hand started to move, erratically at first, but within a minute it was moving normally. I set up the flashlight 3 inches from the watch face and left it on for 3 hours, and it has been keeping perfect time ever since. I do physical labor and this watch looks just as good as it did when I got it a month ago. The low profile keeps you from banging the watch on everything you walk past, or reach for, and the black watch face contrasting with the white numbers and near white dials, makes it very easy to tell the time at night. Also, in the past I had owned quite a few expensive watches, however, my last watch was a Timex Indiglo that I put a Shell Cordovan band on, and the real leather band that comes with this watch is more comfortable than the shell cordovan. I only own 1 watch and wear my watch continuously, only taking it off when I shower, so I feel after a month I have a pretty good read on what this watch is. It is a very tough, reliable, and comfortable watch that I will be wearing for many years to come. In my opinion, the best value for a field watch on the market.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2024
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