ALOCASIA ‘MAROON SHIELD’
Alocasia odora x Alocasia cuprea
PARENTAGE: Alocasia odorax Alocasia cuprea
SYNONYMS: Alocasia ‘Cupredora’
HYBRIDIZER: LariAnn Garner (Aroidia Research) - hybridized in the early 1980s
Unkowingly, as Alocasia ‘Uhinkii' was believed to be a species at the time, LariAnn recreated the cross and created Alocasia ‘Maroon Shield’.
“The two plants depicted here are seedling variants of a hybrid between Alocasia odora (ovule) and Alocasia cuprea (pollen). The cross was performed in the early 1980s. This cross only took in the one direction, and all progeny appear to be sterile, although quite vigorous under the proper growing conditions.
While we accomplished the objective of producing a hardier, more colorful plant similar to Alocasia odora, at this point we are not able to do further work with it until we attempt chromosome doubling in order to obtain viable pollen.”
VARIEGATION: N/A
DESCRIPTION: Large-sized leaves with a closed sinus, that remind of Alocasia odora and purple-red abaxial undersides that remind of Alocasia cuprea
INFLORESCENCE: N/A
