Alocasia macrorrhizos Shock Treatment Fatshedera Our plant graces the Souto

Our plant graces the Souto Garden with pea-like foliage on long

when the clumps are topped with cloud-like heads of reddish purple that age to pink

but heat intolerant Trillium cernuum

Starting for us in mid-October

but this selection makes a stoloniferous spreading groundcover reminiscent of the European Asarum europaeum

Alocasia macrorrhizos Shock Treatment Fatshedera Our plant graces the SoutoAlocasia 'Shock Treatment' is a 2008 Plant Delights JLBG introduction that truly had a series of twist and turns in its road to market. In 2005, we were botanizing north of Hanoi and after finding our road washed out, we retreated through a series of uninteresting back roads until sighting this bizarre form of the common Alocasia macrorrhizos in the front yard of a small home. The owner gladly shared a piece that we subsequently named Alocasia 'Shock