Photosynthetic acclimation to 5 light environments ranging from 2 to 60% full sun was determined in Alocasia macrorrhiza, a shade tolerant species from tropical forest understories, and Colocasia ...

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- large evergreen with extremely large erect or spreading leaves; cultivated widely in tropics for its edible rhizome and shoots; used in wet warm regions as a stately ornamental ...

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This has been a banner year for tropical plant nuts like as regal shields, Borneo giant, and portora, just to name a few, started showing up in area garden centers. These are just a few of the ...

Alocasia hypnosa J.T. Yin, Y.H. Wang & Z.F. Xu is described and illustrated as a new species of Araceae from southern Yunnan, China. It occurs also in Thailand. The morphological characters of A.