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