Re: [Aroid-l] ID needed

From: "Christopher Rogers" <crogers at ecoanalysts.com> on 2008.09.12 at 12:06:17(18505) 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 reflexes awayfrom the spadix, and A. odora, which has an erect yellow spathe, as opposed tothe green spathe on gageana. Happy days, Christopher HTML +More D. Christopher Rogers Senior Invertebrate Ecologist/Taxonomist ((,///////////=======

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