UNSPSC 10161819: Elephant ear or oreja de elefante plant

Plant of the araceae family.

UNSPSC 10161819 Elephant ear or oreja de elefante plant is a Commodity code with minimal recent state and local procurement activity directly aligned to its botanical scope. The recent opportunities block contains no solicitations specifically requesting elephant ear plants; instead, the six posted opportunities span generalized plant procurement, landscape installation, invasive species removal, and educational supplies—none of which name elephant ear as a line item or specification. The mismatch between the code's nominal scope and the actual solicitations posted suggests that state and local purchasing offices are not tagging elephant ear procurement under this Commodity, or that demand for this specific plant species is too sparse to generate standalone solicitations.

The six recent opportunities posted between February and June 2026 involve Collier County (two landscape and dune plantings), the City of Fairburn and City of McKinney (interior and median plantings with native or ornamental species), Monroe County (invasive exotic plant removal at an airport), and Region 7 Purchasing Cooperative in Texas (educational supplies catalog discounts). None of these solicitations reference elephant ear plants. Geographic activity clusters in Florida (Collier County, Monroe County) and Texas (McKinney, Region 7), with a Georgia outlier (Fairburn). The issuing bodies are county departments, municipal procurement offices, and a regional education cooperative. If elephant ear plants are being procured by state and local entities, the purchasing activity is either falling under parent codes like ornamental plants or shrubs, coded under different UNSPSC numbers, or sourced through existing framework contracts and cooperative agreements rather than competitive RFPs or ITBs. Firms pursuing this Commodity code should expect limited standalone opportunities and may need to broaden positioning to cover general plant supply and landscape installation services where elephant ear varieties might be specified as alternatives.