Once upon a time in a land probably not very far away, I had someone else buy me a plant. It was dark and made these big old leaves that looked super cool and tropical. LOVED IT. I still have that Alocasia Regal Shield, although in the intervening years a few things have changed. First of all, I learned what the name of it was, which was an act of Congress. There are SO very many different varieties of Alocasia - not to mention Colocasia - that almost every AI on the planet g

Yesterday, while I was out and about picking up materials to build a trellis for a giant Monstera Deliciosa, I found an Alocasia Odora 'Batik.' So, in typical plant hoarding fashion, I brought it home. Obviously. I then compared it to the Alocasia macrorrhizos 'Dawn' - here's what I found.