Alocasia cucullata
A clumping, medium-sized Alocasia up to about 1 m tall with glossy, heart-shaped leaves up to 40 × 28 cm, widely grown across southern and South-East Asia as a temple plant, medicinal plant and ornamental. Its true wild range is uncertain because it is known mostly from cultivation and disturbed ground, and it rarely flowers. It is one of the easiest and most cold-tolerant alocasias, needing warmth, bright shade and steady moisture.
Where it grows wild
Found mostly around villages, temples, gardens, roadsides and disturbed moist ground, and along forest edges and stream banks, from lowland to submontane zones. Because it spreads vegetatively from stem and rhizome fragments and is so widely planted, it is hard to separate wild from escaped populations.
Recorded elevations run from near sea level to 1,869 m, with a median of 730 m (19 records). Many records are from the hills of southern China, northern Thailand and the eastern Himalayan foothills.
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