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| − | Alocasia regina, N. E. Br. Lvs. thick, ovate-cordate, obtuse or cuspidate, the basal lobes short and nearly or quite obtuse, the ribs and veins beneath pubescent, somewhat fleshy, dark green above with darker veins and brown-purple beneath; petioles terete, pubescent spotted purple. Borneo. I.H. 32:544.—Several cult, varieties and hybrids are in the trade in this country: A. argyraea, Sander, lvs. large, dark green with a silvery sheen, hastate-lanceolate (G.W. 15:342); hybrid of longiloba x Pucciana; A. bataviensis, petiole dark purple, | + | Alocasia regina, N. E. Br. Lvs. thick, ovate-cordate, obtuse or cuspidate, the basal lobes short and nearly or quite obtuse, the ribs and veins beneath pubescent, somewhat fleshy, dark green above with darker veins and brown-purple beneath; petioles terete, pubescent spotted purple. Borneo. I.H. 32:544.—Several cult, varieties and hybrids are in the trade in this country: A. argyraea, Sander, lvs. large, dark green with a silvery sheen, hastate-lanceolate (G.W. 15:342); hybrid of longiloba x Pucciana; A. bataviensis, petiole dark purple, lf.-blade dark green; A. Chantrieri (raised by Chantrier Bros., Mortefontaine, France), hybrid of cuprea x Sanderiana, with long wavy lvs., purple below and prominently white-veined (I.H. 35:64. R.H. 1887, p. 465); A. Chelsonii, cuprea x longiloba, with lvs. purple below and green above; A. gigas, much like Villeneuvei; A. intermedia, hybrid by Veitch 25 years ago (G. 2:61. G.Vf. 15, p. 341. F. 1869, p. 80); A. La Salliana; A. Luciano, Thibautiana x Putzeysi, with lvs. dark green above and whitish veins and margins, purple beneath (I.H. 34:27); A. mortefontainensis, Lowii x Sanderiana; A. Pucciana, Putzeysi x Thibautiana; A. Sedenii, cuprea x Lowii, with ovate-peltate lvs. purple beneath and white-veined above (I.H. 24:292); A. Van Houttei. The following names are also in our trade: A. illustris=Colocasia antiquorum; A. Jenningsii=Colocasia affinis; A. Johnstonii = Cyrtosperma Johnstonii; A. Marshallii—Colocasia. Marchallii; A. violocea = Colocasia antiquorum(?) |
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Read about Alocasia regina in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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