Alocasia 'Yucatan Princess'

Yucatan Princess is a tall hybrid Alocasia with burgundy-red stems and large arrow-shaped leaves carrying a puckered, slightly rippled texture and a noticeably lower vein count than typical odora or macrorrhizos forms. Its exact taxonomic status is genuinely unsettled: some sources treat it as an undescribed species, others as a hybrid, and it was historically mislabelled as a cultivar of Alocasia sarawakensis despite the two looking quite different. It's a vigorous, architectural grower well suited to a bright room with high humidity.

Native range

Developed by breeder Brian Williams (Brian's Botanicals, USA), introduced around 2011-2012, from Alocasia odora and macrorrhizos-type parentage. Historically sold under the name Alocasia sarawakensis, though multiple sources note the two are unrelated and present quite differently.

Classification

Genus

Alocasia

Family

Araceae

Type

Hybrid

Growth habit

Upright clumping, rhizomatous

Morphology

Leaf shape

Large, arrow-shaped, puckered texture

Leaf length

35-55 cm

Leaf width

25-40 cm

Petiole colour

Burgundy-red

Venation

Lower primary vein count than typical macrorrhizos-type Alocasia

Texture

Puckered, slightly rippled

Variegation

N/A

Growth habit

Upright clumping