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Alocasia 'Yucatan Princess'
Yucatan Princess Elephant Ear
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Yucatan Princess is a tall hybrid Alocasia with burgundy-red stems and large arrow-shaped leaves carrying a puckered, slightly rippled texture and a noticeably lower vein count than typical odora or macrorrhizos forms. Its exact taxonomic status is genuinely unsettled — some sources treat it as an undescribed species, others as a hybrid, and it was historically mislabelled as a cultivar of Alocasia sarawakensis despite the two looking quite different. It's a vigorous, architectural grower well suited to a bright room with high humidity.
Native Range
Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo
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A Name Ahead of the Taxonomy
Yucatan Princess was historically sold as a cultivar of Alocasia sarawakensis, but the two plants aren't related and look quite different once you know what to check — lower vein count, puckered texture, burgundy stems. Whether it's better described as an undescribed species or a hybrid of odora and macrorrhizos-type parentage is still genuinely unresolved among growers, so no formal parentage link is shown here.