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title: "Alocasia Aficionados"
description: "The Lush Alocasia and Colocasia group"
url: "https://getplanta.com/community/8YJLrBkOSo27kyNSisgUpA"
language: "en"
modified: "2023-07-31T09:16:35.156Z"
image: "https://images.getplanta.com/v2/cloudinary/global_data/communities/mpycjli7ggvccwjwq84r.jpg"
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[Community](https://getplanta.com/community.md)

# Alocasia Aficionados

Discover the beauty of Alocasias and Colocasias with fellow plant lovers, share tips, and embrace the joy of cultivating these exotic treasures.

Foliage plants. 7470 members, 1545 posts

## Posts

- [How do you all prevent mildew/mold/fungus from growing in your sphagnum moss container when growing corms?](https://getplanta.com/community/8YJLrBkOSo27kyNSisgUpA/652d534ad9ea4545e4a832da.md) (by KD 🪴, 2023-10-16, 1 comment)
- [New here! This may be a silly question but what type of Alocasia is in the title photo? I have the exact one and have…](https://getplanta.com/community/8YJLrBkOSo27kyNSisgUpA/652c6a7603913e102da4a8a2.md) (by Jewls, 2023-10-15, 6 comments)
- [My frydek’s newest leaf. I’m beyond obsessed. \*\*shoutout to my Alocasia odora batik to the left of the frydek\*\* 🪴💚](https://getplanta.com/community/8YJLrBkOSo27kyNSisgUpA/652c410ba97f7f6a228f1445.md) (by Heloncha, 2023-10-15, 1 comment)
- [Help with my Alocasia ‘Jacklyn’ I've had it for three months and until lately has been fine but it only has this one…](https://getplanta.com/community/8YJLrBkOSo27kyNSisgUpA/652c2d93f21d7febca16d3a0.md) (by Chelnh, 2023-10-15, 2 comments)
- [Please help. All other leaves have fallen off. How can I save her?](https://getplanta.com/community/8YJLrBkOSo27kyNSisgUpA/652c08bb28d0e74853c65e1b.md) (by Jacqueline Lyday, 2023-10-15, 4 comments)
- [Heyy!! could someone tell me why my alocasia pink dragon has this open dark spot on it which keeps growing??](https://getplanta.com/community/8YJLrBkOSo27kyNSisgUpA/652ba954a8c55f2d1eaf996b.md) (by Orlando, 2023-10-15, 5 comments)
- [Got my first Alocasia a few weeks ago. Do these guys like to be root bound at all, or would y’all recommend repotting…](https://getplanta.com/community/8YJLrBkOSo27kyNSisgUpA/652af8ff556b4f6f7cd20624.md) (by KD 🪴, 2023-10-14, 3 comments)
- [The new leaf looks like a marbled steak from behind XD, it’s so pretty tho!](https://getplanta.com/community/8YJLrBkOSo27kyNSisgUpA/652926e0dd92e5cffa20fc1f.md) (by Soup, 2023-10-13, 2 comments)
- [Look how beautiful this leaf is that my alocasia watsoniana rewarded me during the fall season!! I made the second…](https://getplanta.com/community/8YJLrBkOSo27kyNSisgUpA/652672458d68af87b8442d7f.md) (by Soup, 2023-10-11, 0 comments)
- [I brought this plant a week ago and sudden he’s just gone brown and wilting ! What do I do?](https://getplanta.com/community/8YJLrBkOSo27kyNSisgUpA/6525a63b54822546d3bdcd5f.md) (by Linda, 2023-10-10, 2 comments)
- [My Alocasia Frydek is pretty droopy a couple weeks after purchasing… should I be concerned?](https://getplanta.com/community/8YJLrBkOSo27kyNSisgUpA/6525302ff51e9fc093536ae4.md) (by Jennifer, 2023-10-10, 7 comments)
- [I brought home and Alocasia Bambino from the grocery store last night (I know, regretting it already!) and I have seen…](https://getplanta.com/community/8YJLrBkOSo27kyNSisgUpA/6524a191df61608c5ffbee5a.md) (by Nic Van D, 2023-10-10, 7 comments)
- [This needed TLC. I repotted it, took out some dead leaves, cut the roots back. It suffered from being rootbound and not…](https://getplanta.com/community/8YJLrBkOSo27kyNSisgUpA/65246eb9f01651be6f8d9c99.md) (by jedijae, 2023-10-09, 2 comments)
- [My Alocasia nebula 🥰 got this beauty for $10 today at my favorite nursery](https://getplanta.com/community/8YJLrBkOSo27kyNSisgUpA/6522076307209a698a563f16.md) (by Hallie, 2023-10-08, 2 comments)
- [My black velvet currently has a flower that’s opened, another that is opening within the next week, and a new leaf (not…](https://getplanta.com/community/8YJLrBkOSo27kyNSisgUpA/651f4d05beca0305aec39eea.md) (by GreenLeaf, 2023-10-05, 1 comment)
- [Hi! Wondering if I should be trimming the brown/dead/old leaves off of my Alocasia? They’re also very wet, I thought it…](https://getplanta.com/community/8YJLrBkOSo27kyNSisgUpA/651f1e1dd1f87f774c462d9c.md) (by Georgie, 2023-10-05, 3 comments)
- [I love her 😍 it was a small sprout in July!](https://getplanta.com/community/8YJLrBkOSo27kyNSisgUpA/651db780395b66034a2242bd.md) (by Ana, 2023-10-04, 0 comments)
- [Look at this beautiful alocasia dragon breath, it’s so bushy and is putting out so many new leaves!!](https://getplanta.com/community/8YJLrBkOSo27kyNSisgUpA/651d6e88395b66b5a0148d42.md) (by Soup, 2023-10-04, 0 comments)
- [Hi there… I am very new to Sphagnum moss. Wondering if you need to change it? Does it get moldy if left in the same…](https://getplanta.com/community/8YJLrBkOSo27kyNSisgUpA/651c8795af6138b27080048e.md) (by Joy, 2023-10-03, 4 comments)
- [Does anyone know what is going on with my plant](https://getplanta.com/community/8YJLrBkOSo27kyNSisgUpA/651b2539d0d35f58cc544b9a.md) (by Eli, 2023-10-02, 4 comments)

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