Alocasia wentii

Engl. & K. Krause 1916

Still I'm not quite clear about it, but it's rather the one.

The same specimen, in 2001, as I bought it, was 45 cm tall, and two years later it was 60 cm tall. In the beginning of 2004 it was 80 cm tall.
The leaf blades in 2001, were about 20 cm long, in 2003 - 31-38 cm.
The bottom is purple to violet.	The petioles are green, sometimes with a brownish tint.
In my window she looks like a true Night Queen.	This photo I found in "Kwietnik" It seems to confirm the identification.
Photos of leaves taken with a different camera.

When repotting, in March I found some offsets below the ground level.
But only one of them put up a leaf in April.

Link to Krzysztof Kozminski's page on A. wentii.

page created on 2002-02-20
last modified on 2006-09-30