🪴 The Tropical Indoor Duo: Alocasia Cucullata and Alocasia Wentii

You have chosen a stunning pairing of broad-leafed plants for your Tropical Indoor Duo, creating an instant display of contrasting textures and colours. This mix of the Alocasia Cucullata and the Alocasia Wentii provides the ideal ingredients for a vibrant tropical cocktail, guaranteed to create a lush, exotic, and green vibe in your home.

Fresh from the Nursery and Air Purification

These two Alocasias are wonderful air-purifying houseplants, meaning they actively help keep the air in your home clean and oxygenated. They are sure to enhance your well-being and bring a sense of tranquility to your space.

These plants are carefully selected by plant experts and shipped directly from the nursery. They are grown as organically as possible in a greenhouse that runs on solar energy and geothermal heat, ensuring you receive healthy, vibrant specimens.

1. Alocasia Cucullata (Hooded Elephant Ear)

Your Alocasia Cucullata is rooted in a 19 cm pot and stands at approximately 60 cm (24 inches) tall. This evergreen is known for its bright, glossy green, heart-shaped leaves that grow upright, giving the plant a sculpted look. It has no spines and is not known for a significant fragrance.

2. Alocasia Wentii (New Guinea Shield)

Your Alocasia Wentii is also rooted in a 19 cm pot and stands at approximately 60 cm (24 inches) tall. This beautiful evergreen plant is highly distinctive, featuring large, broad, shield-shaped leaves that are typically dark green on top and boast a contrasting metallic reddish-purple or bronze colour underneath. This gives the plant a wonderful depth of colour. It has no spines and is not known for a significant fragrance.

Essential Care: Placement, Watering, and Fertilizing

These two striking Alocasias share similar preferences for a warm, humid environment.

• Placement: Place the Alocasia in a bright spot, but you must try to avoid direct sunlight, as their leaves can easily scorch. Crucially, avoid draughts, as these tropical houseplants do not like them. To ensure even, balanced growth and prevent the Elephant's Ear from growing crooked, remember to regularly turn the plant slightly.

• Watering: These Alocasias like to get regular sips of water and love a moist soil. A glass of water every week is generally sufficient, but you must ensure the soil is never soggy.

• Fertilizing: Give the Elephant ear some fertilizer twice a month during the growing season (spring and summer). In winter, when growth is slower, fertilizing once every two months is sufficient.

• Flowering: Both plants' beauty lies in their foliage; flowering is rare indoors.

Packaging & Delivery

We pack your houseplants with the utmost care in a sturdy box designed specifically for them. The plants and potting soil are protected by a protective cover, and the houseplants are secured in the box. This ensures that your houseplant will not only be delivered fresh and healthy, but also undamaged.

Note: Both plants in this Tropical Indoor Duo (Alocasia Cucullata and Alocasia Wentii) are considered toxic if ingested. They contain compounds that can cause irritation and digestive distress if consumed by humans or pets. Please ensure they are placed securely out of reach of curious children and animals.