Alocasia gageana 'Albo'

Alocasia gageana 'Albo' is a white-variegated colour break of the compact, narrow-leaved gageana species, carrying crisp white sectoral patches across the same glossy lance-shaped blade as the plain green form. Alongside the more established golden 'Aurea' form, it gives this otherwise understated species a genuine variegated collector following, though stable, well-patterned specimens remain considerably harder to find than the Aurea break. Care follows the same compact clumping profile as the species, with slightly higher light needed to keep the white sectors from scorching or the plant from reverting to green.

Native range

White colour-break cultivar of Alocasia gageana, Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia

Classification

Genus

Alocasia

Family

Araceae

Type

Variegated

Growth habit

Clumping rosette from a corm

Form of

Alocasia gageana

Morphology

Leaf shape

Narrow ovateEgg-shaped leaves, with the wider end near the base. to lanceolateLance-shaped leaves that are significantly longer than they are wide, tapering to a point at the tip.

Leaf length

15-25 cm

Leaf width

6-12 cm

Petiole colour

Green

Venation

PinnateVeins or lobes arranged like a feather, branching out symmetrically on both sides of a single main central vein., understated

Texture

Glossy

Variegation

Sectoral white variegation over the narrow lance-shaped blade

Growth habit

Clumping rosette from a basal corm