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Plant Life

Cultivar profiles, care guides and how we grow rare Alocasia at the nursery.

Alocasia Pink Dragon Lime Aurea 25 March 2026 · 8 min read Alocasia Pink Dragon Lime Aurea: The Complete Collector's Guide Within the Pink Dragon variegated family, the Lime Aurea form occupies a distinct and particularly interesting position. Where the standard Pink Dragon Aurea expresses golden-yellow sectors that create a warm, luminous contrast against the deep green blade, the Lime Aurea... Read the guide
Alocasia Pink Dragon AlboAlbo Variegated 25 Mar 2026 · 15 min read Alocasia Pink Dragon Albo: The Complete Collector's Guide Few Alocasia cultivars manage to combine two genuinely distinct and remarkable characteristics in a single plant with the elegance that Alocasia Pink... Alocasia 'Bambino', compact elongated arrowhead leaves with bold white veiningAmazonica 23 Mar 2026 · 6 min read ALOCASIA BAMBINO: THE COMPLETE COLLECTOR'S GUIDE Alocasia 'Bambino' is a compact, dark-leaved Alocasia with narrow, arrow-shaped leaves and pale veins, and it is one of the most manageable... Alocasia Sanderiana NobilisPink Variegated 23 Mar 2026 · 7 min read ALOCASIA NOBILIS SANDERIANA: THE COMPLETE COLLECTOR'S GUIDE Alocasia Nobilis Sanderiana is the trade name for a deeply lobed, wavy-edged form of Alocasia sanderiana, a Philippine species with dark glossy... Alocasia Simpo AlboAlbo Variegated 23 Mar 2026 · 5 min read ALOCASIA SIMPO ALBO: THE COMPLETE COLLECTOR'S GUIDE Alocasia 'Simpo' Albo is the white-variegated form of a Malaysian-bred hybrid, valued for a thick, puckered leaf that carries albo variegation well.... Alocasia Baginda Dragon ScaleBaginda 23 Mar 2026 · 6 min read ALOCASIA DRAGON SCALE: THE COMPLETE COLLECTOR'S GUIDE Of all the Alocasia cultivars that have captured collector attention in the past decade, Alocasia baginda 'Dragon Scale' has sustained its position... Alocasia Micholitziana Albo FrydekCollector Guide 23 Mar 2026 · 6 min read ALOCASIA FRYDEK VARIEGATED: THE COMPLETE COLLECTOR'S GUIDE Few naming controversies in the ornamental Alocasia world are as well-documented or as instructive as the one surrounding Alocasia micholitziana. The plant... Alocasia Zebrina AureaAurea Variegated 23 Mar 2026 · 6 min read ALOCASIA ZEBRINA AUREA: THE COMPLETE COLLECTOR'S GUIDE On 11 June 1862, at the Second Great Exhibition of the Royal Horticultural Society in London, Veitch and Sons, the nursery dynasty... Alocasia Scalprum AureaAurea Variegated 23 Mar 2026 · 6 min read ALOCASIA SCALPRUM AUREA: THE COMPLETE COLLECTOR'S GUIDE Alocasia scalprum is one of those species where the name does all the necessary work. Scalprum comes from the Latin for a... Alocasia Tandurusa Jacklyn AlboAlbo Variegated 23 Mar 2026 · 6 min read ALOCASIA JACKLYN ALBO: THE COMPLETE COLLECTOR'S GUIDE There are plants whose names arrive in horticulture before their botanical identity is fully resolved. Alocasia 'Jacklyn' is one of them, a... Alocasia baginda 'Silver Dragon', quilted silvery mint leaves with dark veiningBaginda 23 Mar 2026 · 7 min read ALOCASIA SILVER DRAGON: THE COMPLETE COLLECTOR'S GUIDE Alocasia baginda 'Silver Dragon' occupies a particular place in the collector's Alocasia world, a cultivar that earns sustained attention not through shock... Alocasia Green UnicornCollector Guide 23 Mar 2026 · 11 min read ALOCASIA 'GREEN UNICORN': THE COMPLETE COLLECTOR'S GUIDE In the world of ornamental aroid hybrids, most cultivars arrive without documentation. A plant appears in the market, acquires a trade name,... Alocasia reginula 'Black Velvet' Gold, golden variegation on matte velvet leavesAurea Variegated 23 Mar 2026 · 11 min read ALOCASIA BLACK VELVET GOLD: THE COMPLETE COLLECTOR'S GUIDE Alocasia reginula 'Black Velvet' is one of the most recognisable names in the jewel Alocasia world. The species, formally described in 1998,...