I found the name for this one, which I posted in the social group earlier. It's Alocasia macrorrhizos 'Borneo Giant'...not as big, but plenty impressive anyways. At least, it impressed the hell out of me when I saw it at Fairchild Gardens. Makes me wish I lived someplace nice and tropical, so I can grow all these big-leaved aroid monsters.


http://www.blueboard.com/pahatan/temp/DSCN3585.jpg

My Alocasia hybrid...it's got great looking leaves and blooms frequently as well....

http://www.blueboard.com/temp/alocasia_DSC03258.jpg

Is that the species where if you look up at the underside of the leaf towards the light you can see the veination and ancient leaf margins?

I got a pretty cool pic showing that from a botanic garden in the Netherlands. The curator said that the plant was originally very pinnated and that the leaf membrane eventually fused into the single leaf blade we see today.

Cheers.
Jim

I don't know...I don't believe any other Alocasia is pinnatifid, at least in the sense of being pinnatifid like P. bipinnatifidum can be (although I've seen lobed and sinuous leaves), so I'm assuming the ancestral parent of Alocasia probably had entire leaves.

Here's some leaf shapes of other Alocasia, one with highly lobed leaves...
AGRI-STARTS, INC.: Alocasia

Some articles on Jewel Alocasias to show the variety of leaf shapes in these aroids:
Jewel Alocasias articles at Dave's Garden

The Alocasia giants :
http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/1230/

The jewel Alocasia I own puts out new blooms every month...

Looks like a guy with a very tall hat and big...ahem...chests....

http://www.blueboard.com/temp/DSC03278.jpg

And here's a new Philodendron mello-barretoanum that I just got yesterday....it's a very robust Meconostigma that is distinguished by having large "thorns" on its stems...it supposedly has a stem so hard that one needs a chainsaw to cut through it.....

http://www.blueboard.com/pahatan/gam...j_DSC03282.jpg

Here's the thorns starting to develop near the apical tip...they become hard and gray brown in more mature parts of the stem:

http://www.blueboard.com/pahatan/gam...j_DSC03281.jpg

Finally got my first crypt flower!

C. wendtii

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2622/...ce66a958ab.jpg

Just discovered this thread today - great stuff!

Here are some Arisaemas I grow.

A. sikokianum
http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/8082/086qw.jpg

A. kiushianum
http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/7932/092m.jpg

A. thunbergii ssp. urashima
http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/7193/052k.jpg

A. candidissimum f. album
http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/5074/002b.jpg

Hi all. I'm new this year to Amorphophallus. KonJac is my first variety. Here are a few pics. Featuring a what was once a 4 pound, 7 inch across corm this spring, it's now 11 1/2" across and 13 pounds! The other 4 pounder stayed the same size, I think it's because it was under cover and did not get as much water.

The 2 - 4 pounders this spring
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h1...Konjac04-1.jpg

Me with one in mid spring. I am 5' 8" tall.
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h1...KonjacMe-1.jpg

One of them after digging up. The one on the left WAS the same size as the right one!:
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h1.../Amorphs01.jpg