The Encyclopedia of House Plants

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Plant identification guide.

Plants very large, with well developed aboveground stem, covered by cross-scars which are marks of fallen off leaves (young plants with shortened stems). Tips of stems with several large (up to 1⅔′) rounded spear-shaped leaves with thick veins emerging on both sides of a leaf. - Alocasia. Plants smaller with shortened stems and knobby rhizomes. Leaves spear-shaped, on long fleshy petioles. Leaf blades slightly wavy, with long soft tapering pointed tip. Main vein strongly emerged on underside of a leaf. - Zantedeschia.