Alocasia portei Schott is a rare, very eye-catching massive growing (can reach up to 6m in its habitat) aroid. Its foliage grows erect on very thick stem which can reach up to 40 cm in diameter, and its petioles; can reach up tp to 1.5m long. Leaf blades are sagittate, deeply pinnatifid (appearing to be dissected) up to 1.5m or longer.; In house conditions the plants remains smaller.
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Alocasia portei or Porte’s Alocasia was named after French botanist Marius Porte. Born in Marseille, France, he left in 1834 to explore tropical countries and remained in Brazil until 1859, after which he departed the Americas for Borneo, Singapore and the Philippines. He was the first to experiment with shipping plants wrapped in sphagnum moss, which allowed him to bring new plants to Europe, particularly orchids.
The genus Portea (Bromeliaceae) was named after him, as was Phalaenopsis intermedia var. portei.
Marius Porte passed away from an unknown disease on the island of Luzon in 1866.
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 portei
Alocasia portei is ca. 25 cm tall and comes in a 10.5 cm pot