Tropicals & Tender Perennials: New Alocasia hybrid coming along. , 1 by bwilliams

bwilliams wrote:
I am pretty positive this is a new hybrid the mother plant has yet to self seed and I removed the top portion of the spadix fairly early to pollinate other plants. This maybe a first at least it is a first for me. The cross is as follows my hybrid Macrorrhiza X Longloba which I have been calling Macroloba is the mother which was then crossed with Calidora a older LarriAnn cross. So the off spring of this should be very interesting. The Macroloba hybrid looks like a giant longloba growing to 4 to 5 feet tall. It seems to hold all the longloba traits other than size vigor and possibly hardiness. I have been trying to produce a really colorful longloba type hybrid with large colorful upright leaves. Maybe this cross will result in such a hybrid. Here is a picture of the berries still on the flower and tagged.