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Alocasia is a genus of rhizomatous or tuberous, broad-leaved, perennial, flowering plants from the family Araceae. There are about 90 accepted species native to tropical and subtropical Asia and eastern Australia. [ 2 ]
Alocasia zebrina, commonly known as the zebra plant or zebrina alocasia, is a plant in the family Araceae. It is endemic to the islands of Luzon, Mindanao, Leyte, Samar, Biliran, and Alabat in the Philippines. It is commonly grown as an ornamental plant worldwide. [1] [2] It is also locally known as gabing tigre ("tiger taro") in Tagalog. [3]
Alocasia sanderiana is also known as the kris plant because of the resemblance of its leaf edges to the wavy blade of the kalis sword (also known as kris or keris). It is a tropical perennial, with upright leaves, usually growing to a height of 2 ft (60 cm) long. [2] It usually has a single to a few leaves, interspersed with papery cataphylls ...
Alocasia macrorrhizos is a species of flowering plant in the arum family that it is native to rainforests of Maritime Southeast Asia, New Guinea, and Queensland [1] and has long been cultivated in South Asia, the Philippines, many Pacific islands, and elsewhere in the tropics.
Alocasia azlanii, the red mambo, is a species of flowering plant in the family Araceae, native to Brunei, and first described in 2016. [1] With its red to purple patterning on and near its leaf veins, it is sometimes kept as a houseplant.
Alocasia × mortfontanensis (syn. Alocasia × amazonica), the African mask plant or Amazonian elephant ear, is an artificial hybrid species of flowering plant in the family Araceae. [2] Its parents are Alocasia longiloba (from Southeast Asia) and Alocasia sanderiana , the kris plant (from the Philippines). [ 1 ]
Alocasia fornicata is a plant species of many-nerved, broad-leaved, rhizomatous or tuberous perennials from the family Araceae, native to Indochina and to the Indian Subcontinent. [1] It characteristically grows 2' - 3 ' in height with slightly pink petiole, triangular wide shaped leaves and a horizontally growing stolon.
The leaves range in size from 20 to 27 centimetres (7.9 to 10.6 in) long. The leaf margins are entire or shallowly sinuate (wavy). [2] [3] A. heterophylla is very similar to Alocasia ramosii and Alocasia boyceana, which are also endemic to the Philippines and are all grouped with A. heterophylla under the "Heterophylla Group" of the genus Alocasia.