Elephant ear

Elephant ear may literally refer to the ear of an elephant.

It may also refer to:

Plants

• Several genera in the family Araceae (Arums)
  • Alocasia, genus of broad-leaved perennials in tropical & subtropical Asia to Eastern Australia
  • Caladium, ornamental plants with arrowhead-shaped leaves originally from South America
  • Colocasia (taro), a genus of flowering plants native to tropical Polynesia and southeastern Asia
  • Philodendron giganteum, a species of plant found in the Caribbean and South America
  • Xanthosoma, a genus native to tropical America cultivated for their starchy corms
• Burdock, a thistle in the genus Arctium
• Bergenia crassifolia or other plants in genus Bergenia, shade-loving flowering garden plant

Other uses

• Another name for one of several desserts, including a palmier and fried dough
• Gynandrocarpa placenta, genus Gynandrocarpa, a colonial ascidian, sea squirt, found off the Cape Peninsula, South Africa
• Smoke deflectors on steam locomotives may be called "elephant ears" in US railway slang

See also

• Elephant ear sponge (disambiguation)
• Elephant ear tree, Enterolobium cyclocarpum or Macaranga gigantea
• Elephant-ear bamboo, Reynoutria japonica, more commonly known as Japanese knotweed
• All pages with titles beginning with Elephant ear