#alocasia_macrorrhizos
Alocasia macrorrhizos
Species of flowering plant
Alocasia macrorrhizos is a species of flowering plant in the arum family (Araceae) that it is native to rainforests of Maritime Southeast Asia, New Guinea, and Queensland and has long been cultivated in South Asia, the Philippines, many Pacific islands, and elsewhere in the tropics. Common names include giant taro, giant alocasia, ʻape, biga, and pia. In Australia it is known as the cunjevoi . Alocasia macrorrhizos has many varieties both wild and cultivated. The largest of these is the naturally occurring A. m. Borneo Giant which is endemic to Borneo which has huge sagitate leaves (laminae) twelve to fifteen feet in length by about eight feet wide on stalks (petioles) six to eight feet long, forming a rosette at the top of a massive succulent trunk up to 18 inches thick and up to five feet high. The spatheate inflorescence is pink, and resembles the Pink Calla
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