Hiyer!
Looks like Alocasia gageana bywhat I can see of the inflorescences. I have attached pictures of one of myspecimens for comparison. This species is a good temperate Alocasia, and growswell out doors where the temperature does not drop below freezing very often (morningfrosts one or two months a year).
Here we can have the temperaturedrop below freezing for a week or two at a time, and my plants just go dormant,lose most of their leaves, and look lousy until late spring. They seem toprefer bright shade with either morning or evening direct sun, and a fairamount of humidity during the growing season. Outdoors I have grown them to twometers in height with leaves around a meter in length. In my greenhouse thegrowth is far more rapid, with the leaves a bit larger.
This plant is easily confusedwith A. macrorhiza (in our area macrorhiza rarely gets more than two meters inheight unless in a greenhouse) , which has a yellow spathe that=A0 reflexes awayfrom the spadix, and A. odora, which has an erect yellow spathe, as opposed tothe green spathe on gageana.
Happy days,
Christopher
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From:aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com [mailto:aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com] OnBehalf Of Cyndikrall@aol.com
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Does anyone know what this plant is? Found it at a local gardencenter. Sorry for the blurry pic of the bloom!
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