Good day to you people with botany skills that exceed my own. I am looking for a good person to help me identify this green creature of mine. Thanks in advance!
Alocasia 'Amazonica' - one of my faves too, although it has nothing at all to do with the Amazon aroids (Alocasia are old-world tropics natives.)
Thanks for the welcome and the quick response, and indeed, i find it to be a very nice plant as well. It's way more beautiful than the pictures can make it justice, but looking up the details on care, i figure it might be a bit more tricky to keep my creature happy during the winter months - particularly because of the humidity requirements. Also, i might need to check the hardness of my tap water, since it seems to prefer soft water in general. Hm.. Anyways, thanks again. EDIT: Oops, seems my tap water is way too hard for my green fellow... and i was about to pick up Freud to determine why she's been getting more distant with me lately. And yeah, it's a 'she' - the german word for plant (Pflanze) is female, so there you have it.
Uniquor - you can keep the humidity requirement very simply by misting the leaves each day with water. This will also help prevent spider mites!
This will give you a total explanation of how this hybrid Alocasia came into existence: http://www.exoticrainforest.com/Alocasia micholitziana pc.html The plant is not a species. You'll learn even more here: http://www.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/forums/showthread.php?t=58955&highlight=Alocasia+Amazonica
Photopro is correct. Which means that the vast majority of Google pgs are incorrect. I like The Royal Hort society naming convention which is to add a "Sold As" suffix to the name, e.g. Alocasia (sold as Amazonica).
