I love growing plants. All of mine are doing well: tillandsias in my studio, an orchid (no more flowers, but not dead) in the masta bath, an aristolochia vining away in the front room, and various things in the back, including a maidenhair fern which I rescued from the brink of death and some nasturtiums that are blooming nicely.
I have an A. streptophylla, two A. ionanatha var. "Fuego", one something or other that I forgot, and A. purpurea. The Fuegos are red and have purply flowers (eventually)...the purpurea will bloom red. The scruffy unnamed one also blooms...
Aristolochias bloom huge bract-y thingies; I hope mine will bloom indoors! I might grow some outside and then try to find the caterpillar that grows exclusively on them.
We have a bathroom with a skylight and high humidity. Perfect match. :)
My vote is that it's a alocasia amazonica, just by the description. They're tempremental things, but for some reason don't mind being put through airport x-rays. Hm.
Different leaves altogether. The leaves on this thing are a long and slender variety with no backwards-pointy bits. The topside doesn't have the lines like the alocasia amazonica, but it is multicolored similarly.
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I've never been able to keep orchids alive. I'm good with just about everything else.
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Aristolochias bloom huge bract-y thingies; I hope mine will bloom indoors! I might grow some outside and then try to find the caterpillar that grows exclusively on them.
We have a bathroom with a skylight and high humidity. Perfect match. :)
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