A very popular Alocasia with stunning and showy foliage, Alocasia baginda 'Dragon scale' is a cultivar of Alocasia baginda Kurniawan & P.C.Boyce, which is native to Borneo.
It is a tuberous, herbaceous plant with dark matte green leaves, with contrasting pale grey bullate portions of the blade. Heart to arrowhead-shaped, very stiffly thickly coriaceous and almost completely peltate, each held singly atop long and sturdy succulent stems.
Genus name comes form the Greek words a meaning without and Colocasia the name of a closely allied genus, form which it was separated.
Alocasia baginda 'Dragon scale'
Alocasia baginda 'Dragon scale' comes in following sizes:
baby (XS) - is ca. 12 cm tall, and comes in a Ø 6 cm pot
S - is ca. 20 cm tall, and comes in a Ø 10 cm pot
M - is ca. 25 cm tall, and comes in a Ø 12 cm pot
L - is ca. 45 cm tall, and comes in a Ø 19 cm pot