I found this in an abandoned garden on Kauai.
The vein pattern is interesting, as there are less major veins than on other EE and they are staggered.
The leaf is about 18" long.
Ideas?
ROX
Need ID of Alocasia
Here's a pic of the back of the leaf.
ROX
It almost looks like a broneo giant. It will be interesting to see if that ripple effect will stay in the leaf. It is probably in the same section as macrorrhiza and its hard to say if its a different species or just a different form. Maturity will help in its ID.
Brian-
All the leaves on 4 different plants have this different vein pattern, which doesn't look anything like my Macrorrhiza leaf vein pattern.
ROX
The stems show a bit of coloration on it also. I am guessing this was one you got out of Hawaii? It maybe impossible for even the experts to ID with out knowning were it was origianlly form. Alistar maybe our only hope here.
It does have reddish-brown ticking on the stem.
I'll post a pic later.
ROX
Could be a few things, possibly even hollrungii. Won't know till it flowers....
Oh, boy. I hope it flowers then.
Brian, yours is in the mail. Perhaps between the two of us, we will have some luck!
BTW, I have never even heard of a hollrungii. I am going to google it.
Thanks, ROX
Rox you really need to get your hands on a old aroideana called The cultivation of Alocasia Vol 7 number 3 -4 . It is a book given out to members of the aroid society and this old issue is the bible of Alocasias. David Burnett a fellow Australian like Alistair wrote it years ago it has tons of photos and information that is priceless.
It states that this species is rarely seen in cultivation the photo looks to have somewhat droopy leaves that hang down around the edges. It comes from New Guinea and was once labled in the Xenophya group. This group was once seperated from the alocasias group due to their flowers being different. Most can are very odd you probably know these two other species that use to be in the Xenophya group brancaefolia and lauterbachiana.
It does seem to have very similar look from you photo and the one in Aroideana.
Alistair while I have you on mind do know of a species list of Cytrospermas? And do you know a source for many of them. I know Julius is about the only expert here in the states and Enid has been a very good grower but I would like to find some more species and it seems they are extremely hard to find or over looked? We had a talk awhile back that merkusii could produce some of the largest solid leaves on the planet have you seen any large ones with estimated dimentions?
Brian-
Imagine me hitting my forehead [like the V8 commercial].
I do have that volume....I running to go look at it!
Thanks, ROX