Alocasia

Pink in Alocasia is not a rarer form of variegation. It is a different pigment entirely, one that only certain cultivars carry and that behaves on its own rules.

Most Alocasia care advice is really just general aroid advice with the name swapped in. The corm changes that: how it grows, how often it wants water, and what dormancy actually looks like.

Alocasia rewards a collector with real variation in color and texture, not another take on white variegation. Seven forms worth making room for, from soft pink Polly to the tail-tipped Venom.

Alocasias propagate differently from most aroids, and understanding how changes the way you think about offsets, tissue culture, and why variegated forms exist at all. Here is how the rhizome, corms, and TC all connect.