A gorgeous, smaller growing; jewel Alocasia, with deeply embossed foliage, Alocasia sinuata N.E.Br. is; a tuberous, herbaceous species. Its leaf blades are sagittate to ovato-sagittate, peltate or not, markedly bullate and thickly coriaceous, dark green in colour. The specific epithet for this species comes from the Latin sinus/sinuo, meaning curved, folded, or bent, and referring to the embossed surface of the leaf. While this species has been well-known in cultivation both in the Philippines, and worldwide for over a century, it is botanically poorly known.
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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 sinuata
Alocasia sinuata is ca. 25 cm tall and comes in a ⌀ 14cm pot.
