Alocasia ×amazonica

학명 : Alocasia ×amazonica Reark

분류 : Araceae

영명 : Amazonian Elephant Ear

 

사진 : 2023.02.05 부천 수피아식물원

 

 

인터넷 검색에서는 품종 'Polly'와  'Dwarf Amazonica'가 검색된다

 

  

 

안내판에는 교배종 표시 X 가 빠져 있다 

 

 

 

 

 

아래 : 2023.02.21 부천수피아식물원

 

 

 

 

 

 

아래 : 2023.03.09 부천수피아식물원

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

설명

 

Alocasia × amazonica is a hybrid whose parents are unknown. It features leathery, wavy-edged, arrowhead-shaped, dark bronze-green leaves (to 16” long) with conspicuous, contrasting, thick white to silvery-green main veins. In terms of nursery sales, this hybrid is commonly available as a houseplant. In terms of botanical origin and proper nomenclature, it remains somewhat of a mystery. Some experts today consider Alocasia x amazonica to be a manufactured horticultural name rather than a legitimate scientific name. Although amazonica seems to suggest that this plant is native to the Amazon River in Brazil, none of the species of Alocasia are native to South America.

 

Some authorities currently believe that Alocasia × amazonica is simply a name applied by Salvadore Mauro in the 1950s to a hybrid created by him at his Miami, Florida nursery known as Amazon Nursery. Mauro never published or registered this hybrid name, however.

 

Genus name comes from the Greek words a meaning without and Colocasia the name of a closely allied genus, from which it was separated.

 

Specific epithet is probably in reference to the Amazon Nursery in Miami, Florida.

 

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