Tropicals & Tender Perennials: I need to be educated in EE's, 1 by bwilliams

bwilliams wrote:
It's can be very hard to ID some of these when they are young. Most though end up being the most common forms around which have been sold and passed around for years in the US. The best way to get them to grow a trunk is to plant them in the ground. They can grow in full sun or part shade rich soil helps and keeping them from freezing. In some of the colder zones the plants are froze back to the ground yearly this usually prevents them from growing a trunk. It can take years to get a nice tall trunk.

Here is a nice pic of Alocasia gageana I have seen this ID as Odora and macrorrhiza a ton of times and usually is hard to tell apart besides its dwarf habit. This one had nice round leaves and good veins. Some look a bit more plain.