Alocasia macrorrhizos variegata

[Johnk9]

alocasia macrorrhizos variegata

 

alocasia black stem variegata

[metalfan]

One of my favorite plants!

[metalfan]

I have patches of these all over

[Silas_Sancona]

3 hours ago, metalfan said:

One of my favorite plants!

Agree, had to find one when i saw it offered at another local nursery back in San Jose.. Paid $ for it too. Put the larger plant in a small landscape i'd done for a neighbor at the time and kept the babies.. Did well until they met the blast furnace, aka the Desert..  All day shade didn't save 'em either. On the list of  .." to be replaced " plants, once i have left the Crock Pot, lol.

[metalfan]

I don't grow mine this way, because I have always had a feeling in the back of my mind that eventually it would turn out badly, but I have been told by others that this alocasia can actually be grown in a bog or pond. I bow that this is true for the green form, because I have had one growing in my greenhouse stream for several years. I may trial a small variegated one in the stream and see.

[Johnk9]

17 hours ago, Johnk9 said:

alocasia macrorrhizos variegata

 

alocasia black stem variegata

Gold or yellow form

Edited September 14, 2018 by Johnk9
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[metalfan]

The yellow form may actually be Alocasia gagnea. I have had it for many years. It has a different pattern of variegation and of course the gold color. There is also a variegated form of Alocasia went that has yellow/gold variegation