Stunning Asplenium Antiquum Fern - Add A Touch of Vintage Charm to Your Home
- Common name:
- Alocasia Amazonica
- Light:
- Semi shade, Shade growing
- Water:
- Normal, Can tolerate more
- Primarily grown for:
- Foliage
- Flowering season:
- Flowers are inconspicuous
- Foliage color:
- Green, White, Purple
- Plant Height or length:
- 50 cms to 100 cms
- Plant Spread or Width:
- 50 cms to 100 cms
- Plant Form:
- Spreading, Upright or Erect
- Special Character:
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- Rare Plant or difficult to get plant
- Good for Cut foliage
- Generally available in India in quantities of:
- Less than a hundred
- Plant Description:
- The plant bears many dark green leaves with white veins and margins. It is a hybrid of Alocasia sanderiana X alocasin lowii grandis. Stem is thick, rhizomatous, densely marked with leaf scars. Plants develop many leaves and a well grown plant is a treat for the eyes.
- Growing tips:
- Grows best in soil mixed with a minimum of 50 percent organic matter. Prefer a moist and shady situation. It grows well in porous soil, rich in organic matter, perfect drainage is absolutely necessary. Propagated by the division of rhizome, suckers and more recently tissue culture.
