Alocasia tandurusa "Jacklyn" Mystic Variegated

Cream variegation on a skeleton leaf.

Most variegated Alocasia work the same way sectors of cream or white expressing across a broad, solid leaf surface. "Jacklyn" starts from somewhere else entirely. The blade itself is deeply pinnatifid, cut almost to the midrib into narrow finger-like lobes, giving the plant a skeletal, architectural silhouette that very few other species in the genus can match.

The Mystic form lays cream chimeric variegation across that already dramatic shape. Cream sections drift through the lobes and venation, and because the variegation is chimeric and sectoral, no two leaves carry it the same way.

The species behind the name

Alocasia tandurusa is a recently described species from northern Sulawesi, known with certainty only from the Bolaang Mongondow Regency of Sulawesi Utara. It came to collectors worldwide during the aroid-mania of the pandemic years, and the wild populations are now understood to be severely depleted — part of why responsibly propagated material matters. In the trade it travels under the names "Jacklyn" and "Jacklin", the latter being the original spelling.

The Mystic difference

This is the Korean-developed Mystic form. It differs from the standard plant in two ways that matter to a collector: a noticeably broader leaf, and cream variegated sections expressing throughout the foliage rather than as occasional flecks. The deeply lobed blade and the cream variegation together make every specimen genuinely singular.

Why this form rarely surfaces

Standard "Jacklyn" is established in the wider trade. The Mystic Variegated form is not. The combination of a Korean-bred wide-leaf selection with stable cream variegation on a species this scarce in cultivation makes it a true collector's specimen.

The drop!

Five plants. £90 each

Free delivery

Free pots and pon

Sunday at 4pm.

The collector list gets first access. Anything left after the list moves opens to the wider audience at the higher price.