Specialocasia

Here's another plant you've never heard of before! In 2005, we were driving through the restricted military region of North Vietnam, along the Southern China border, when we spotted what appeared to be an elephant ear hybrid growing in a wild patch of Leucocasia (Colocasia) gigantea. It would take us years to get a confirmation from Aroid expert Peter Boyce that, indeed, we had discovered the first ever documented hybrid between elephant ear genera...Leucocasia gigantea x Alocasia odora.