Alocasia baginda
A compact Bornean Alocasia with thick, deeply textured, silvery-green leaves marked by dark veins. It is the source of the 'Dragon Scale' and 'Silver Dragon' selections. It was described in 2011 from plants that came from East Kalimantan and were grown at the Bali Botanic Garden, and its wild habitat has not been documented. Its close relatives grow on limestone or ultramafic rock, and the authors expect it to share that preference. Grow it like other small Bornean forest-floor alocasias: warm, humid and shaded, in a very open, fast-draining mix.
Where it grows wild
Its wild habitat is unknown, since the type material came from cultivation at the Bali Botanic Garden. The describers compared it with related Bornean species that are restricted to limestone or ultramafic substrates and expect it to show a similar geological preference once it is found again in the wild. By analogy with those relatives, it is most likely a shaded forest-floor or rock-crevice plant in everwet lowland forest.
No elevation is recorded. East Kalimantan's everwet forests where related species grow are mostly lowland to hill forest.
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