Mazhar Botanic Garden

Alocasia amazonica

Amazonian Elephant Ear

Family: Araceae
Genus: Alocasia
Species: amazonica
Sample code: EGY-MBG-000545
English name: Amazonian Elephant Ear
Arabic name: الوكاسيا امازونيكا
Native: Southeast Asia
Country: Southeast Asia
(PGR): Common

Robust rhizomatous evergreen perennial leaves dark green, narrowly arrow-shaped, wavy-edged 60 cm long, adorned with ribs and margins marked in bright creamy white flowers consist which is surrounded by a bright-colored spathe

popular ornamental house plant. Shade garden

Texture: Loam
Water Sources: Humidity
Lights: Partial shade
Propagation: Offsets
Flowering time: Around summer and spring
Zone: 10 : 12
pH range: 5.5-6.5

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