Another collectible Alocasia.

Amazonian Alocasia:

It belongs to the Araceae family, its scientific name is Amazonian Alocasia and the common one is Alocasia, it also comes from the group of “elephant ear” plants.

It’s native to the Amazonian rainforests.

This plant in my country can be seen in the gardens of homes in common.

This plant has striking leaves, their shape resembling an elongated heart or a lance of sorts, with a dark green color. It has a central white rib from where other ribs of the same color start, giving the impression of lines on the entire surface of the underside of the leaf. The leaf is born from a single petiole or stem, which in turn is born from a terrestrial rhizome.

It is a plant that, due to its colorful leaf, is widely used indoors as an ornamental plant. Although it needs the sun, it cannot be placed in direct exposure to it, since its leaves burn.

As it is a plant that belongs to the Amazonian rain forests, it likes the humid substrate without stagnations. Therefore, a pot should be selected where the substrate is abundant with compost and known for a good drainage of the irrigation water.

For reproduction, a small stem with rhizome is cut from the mother plant and planted in a pot with the same substrate as the mother plant. In a short time the rhizome takes root and we will have another plant.

This little plant is just transplanted. It’s responding well to its new pot and substrate. With a little more care I hope that its leaves start to grow as much as the mother plant.

This is the mother plant. She has only a few months with me. It doesn’t reach one year of age. It has gone through periods of aridity for which it has not developed as many leaves as I would like, but it’s growing with new and very well developed leaves.

This plant is one of the indoor plants that I like the most. It is beautiful, resistant, its leaves with the characteristics of an artificial plant. By the fact of having the brightness in its leaves. It makes it worthy of a privileged place in my garden and in the arrangements of indoor plants in my house.

They are not very demanding plants. By leaving them in the shade, with sufficient sunlight and keeping their substrate moist. They are minimum conditions that anyone can maintain. With this you will have in your home a plant that adorns and that gives joy to our hearts every day.