Species · genus Alocasia · Araceae

Alocasia Dragon Scale

Alocasia baginda Kurniawan & P.C.Boyce

Also known as: Dragon Scale · Dragon Scale Alocasia · Alocasia Silver Dragon · Silver Dragon

Growth habit

Unknown

Native range

Borneo

Reference · A. baginda

Cultivars of A. baginda

The named forms growers keep — each with its own page, each honest about how much we know.

No named cultivars catalogued under A. baginda yet. When growers document a stable, named form, it earns its own page here.

Guide

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Alocasia baginda is an aroid native to the humid forests of Borneo, where it grows in warmth and shade beneath the canopy. Give it bright indirect light and a fast-draining mix, and water only when the top inch or two of mix has dried; it stores moisture and rots if left sitting wet. It genuinely wants high humidity and steady warmth.

Care recipe

The species record — the baseline every cultivar inherits unless it says otherwise.

Care notes are early — not yet verified

Light: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Water: ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 5-10d)
Humidity: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Soil: ai:claude-fable-5
Care: ai:claude-fable-5

Light

Bright, indirect

Water

≈ every 10 days

Humidity

High

Temperature

18–29 °C

Soil mix

Very loose, fast-draining aroid mix rich in bark

Propagation

Separate rhizome divisions or offsets

Fertilizing

Light balanced feed monthly in the growing season

Growth rate

Slow

Flowering

Rarely flowers indoors

ToxicityAuthoritative · species

Toxic to cats & dogs & humans

Araceae contain insoluble calcium oxalate crystals, which irritate the mouth and digestive tract if chewed. This is where toxicity lives: every cultivar of this species inherits it and none can override it.

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Sources: ai:claude-opus-4-8 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 5-10d) · ai:claude-fable-5 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (family inference)

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