Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Alocasia Odora Var inflorescence, 0 by bwilliams

bwilliams wrote:
You would need to get the pollen down into the lower level. In most cases they do not often self pollinate. Meaning that when the pollen is dropped the female section has already gone sterile. It is not the case in all alocasias some specially when they are older plants can self pollinate. The trick is to get the pollen into the lower swollen chamber onto the receptacles. The top portion of the flower were it is hooded will tighten up about midway when it does this it will then release its pollen. What you need to do is collect the pollen and cut a window into the lower section and place the pollen their. I would also suggest saving the pollen in a test tube or some aluminum foil and placing it in your refrigerator. The pollen should stay viable for sometime hopefully for the next flower once it is at the stage you have pictured here take your test tube pollen and put it on the female section long before it produces pollen.

Here is a photo of a colocasia being pollinated. The top spadix was removed so that it did not self pollinate.