Alocasia scalprum Albo

A well-documented colour break with a large number of recorded sales, second only to Alocasia melo Albo in listing volume among the jewel Alocasia in this catalogue. Alocasia scalprum Albo shares the same underlying form and growth habit as Alocasia scalprum (narrow sagittate to lanceolate leaves on compact, terrestrial, self-heading growth), with crisp white sectoral patches breaking across the metallic, deeply quilted lanceolate leaf, the bullate texture unchanged by the colour break.

Native range

Albo colour-break cultivar of Alocasia scalprum, Philippines (Samar)

Classification

Genus

Alocasia

Family

Araceae

Type

Variegated

Growth habit

Compact, terrestrial, self-heading

Form of

Alocasia scalprum

Morphology

Leaf shape

Narrow sagittateArrowhead-shaped leaves, with pointed lobes at the base pointing downwards. to lanceolateLance-shaped leaves that are significantly longer than they are wide, tapering to a point at the tip.

Leaf length

20-40 cm

Leaf width

5-10 cm

Petiole colour

Dark purplish-burgundy, unaffected by leaf variegation

Venation

Prominent, heavily bullate

Texture

Metallic, quilted, bullate

Variegation

chimericVariegation caused by a cell mutation. Often produces high contrast but can be unstable and revert to all-green. white sectoral variegation over the species' bullate, metallic-textured surface

Growth habit

Compact, terrestrialA plant that grows directly in the ground, rooting in soil rather than climbing trees or rocks., self-heading