Plant it in full sun. Only alocasias grown in pots require some shade. But I grow mine in pots sunk in the ground. Full sun of course. Roots grow freely thru holes in the bottom of pots so plants don't feel rootbound and it's easy to take them in for winter without destroying whole root system.

There are many commercially created names for hybridized Alocasia that are very similar and likely one and the same. Aroids are extremely variable in appearance and don't always take on the same leaf shape so growers love to give the shapes a new name so they can try to sell more product. All are very similar to a plant that originated as Alocasia Amazonica. Alocasia Amazonica is a hybrid of Alocasia watsoniana x Alocasia sanderiana although some growers believe the plant was actually a cross between Alocasia watsoniana x Alocasia nobilis. The closest species plant is likely Alocasia longiloba which used to be known as Alocasia watsoniana. Alocasia watsoniana was sunk into synonymy with the Alocasia longiloba as a result of being published to science first. That determination was made by Australian aroid botanist Alistair Hay who likely knows more about Alocasia species than anyone else. Alocasia Amazoniica, Alocasia Polly and Alocasia Frydek are commercial names(not species names) for plants that are almost identical. In the past it was also sold as Alocasia 'Maxkowskii' My only suggestion would be to plant the tuber a bit deeper. I have a bed of them in my Exotic Rainforest atrium and not one came up this year. Last year the bed was full. I've seen this happen many times before so if the plant is slow to come out of dormancy don't give up. The link might help and includes a second link which explains natural variation in aroid species. Natural variation is extremely common and the basic rule is just because a leaf looks a little different does not mean it is a different plant. Here is a link that might be useful: Alocasia Amazonica

I am looking for the following: Colocasia, Alocasia, Bulbs of any kind, Bird of Paradise, Cannas, etc... I have the following items available for trade: If it is a plant, seedling or cutting it will state it after the name... Acnistus - Australis Ajania Pacifica Allium - Purple Allium Tuberosum Amaranth - Love Lies Bleeding Amaranthus - Split Personality Anethum Graveolens - Dill Apple Gourd Aristolichia Elegans Asarina Procumbiens Asiatic Lily - Pink Asparagus Fern Aster - Purple Astilbe - Pink Babys Breath Baeometra Uniflora Balloon Flowers Basil - Lemon Basil - Sweet Bells of Ireland Billardiera Longiflora Birds Foot Trefoil Bleeding Heart Bleeding Heart - Alba Buddlei - Dark Knight Butterfly Orchid Flower Butterfly Weed - Orange Cactus - Pink Flowering Calendula - Pacific Beauty Callistemon Viminalis Campsis Radicans - Red Campsis Radicans - Yellow Cardinal Climber Cardiospermum Vine Carolina Allspice Carolina Moonseed Cassia Cassia - Alata Cassia - Wooley Castor Bean Cat Claw Vine Catchfly Cephalanthus - Buttonbush Ceropegia Woodii Chile de Cubol Chocolate Mint Chrysanthemum Carinatum Clitoria Ternata Vine Clock Vine Cobea Scandens Cobea Scandens - Key Lime Coleus - Black Dragon Coleus - Palisandra Commelina Coelestis Confederate Rose Confederate Rose - Double Contender Beans Convolvulus - Blue Enchantment Coral Bush Cordalis Lutea Coriopsis Lance Leaf Cosmos - Candy stripe Cotton Crocea Cytisus Racemosas Genista Dahlia - Mix Datura - Le Fleur Lilac Datura - Toloache Datura - white Delphinium Bellamosa Desert Willow Dianella Longifolia Dolichos Lab Lab Dolichos Lab Lab Alba Enterolobium Cyclocarpum Epiphyllum Epiphyllum - Padre Epiphyllum - Pegasus Erythrina Herbacea Euphorbia - Summer Icicle Evening Primrose - Yellow Ficus (PLANT, LARGE) Flamboyan Fortnight Lily Fountain Grass Fountain Lobelia Foxglove - Excelsior Foxglove - mix Galphimia Glauca Gelsimium Sempervirens - Carolina Jasmine Gladiolus - Mix Golden Chain Golden Raintree Gordonia Lasianthus Guara - The Bride Helichrysum - Tall Double Mix Heuchera - Coral Bells Hibiscus - Cranberry Hibiscus - Red Hawaiin Hibiscus - Texas White Hollyhock - Single Black Hosta Hosta - Elegans Hosta - Large Green Hosta - Little Sunspot Hosta - Medium Blue Hosta - Ventricosa Hoya (CUTTINGS, SEVERAL CULTIVARS... ASK) Hungarian Breadseed Poppy Indian Hawthorne Ixora Coccinea Jacaranda Jacobs Ladder - Blue Japanese Red Maple Japanese Spindle Tree Kiss Me Over The Garden Gate Knithofia Lantana - Pink Leonitis Liatris Lilium Superbum Lily - Casa Blanca Lily - Mix Limanthes Douglasii Linium Usitatissimum - Blue Flax Lions Tail Lotus Corniculatus Lunaria - Honest Lychnis Chacedonica Malva - Moshata Malva - Zebrina Marigold - Cracker Jack Marigold - Sparky Mix Melaleuca Quinquenervia Merremia - Bower Vine Mexican Hat Mimosa Mizuna Mustard Monkshood - Purple Morning Glory - Mt. Fuji Mix Moses in a boat Mountain Garland Murraya Paniculata Nerium Oleander - Calypso Nertera Granadensis - Pincushion Plant Nicandra Nictionia - White Night Blooming Cereus - Cuttings Oleander - Light Pink Oriental Lily - Arabian Red Oriental Lily - Aubade Oriental Lily - Dwarf Goldband Oriental Lily - Mix Orlaya Grandiflora Passiflora - Caerulea Passiflora - Edulis Passiflora - Incarnata Pea Vine - Pink Peas Peek a boo plant Penstemon Digitalis - Husters Red (white blooms with red stems) Plumbago (SEEDS OR CUTTINGS) Plumeria - B-1 (with Color Break Virus) Plumeria - C-1 Plumeria - Cemetary Pink (Oz) Plumeria - Hanks Light Pink Plumeria - Hanky Panky Pink (Oz) Plumeria - Hausten White Plumeria - India Red Plumeria - Kaulanani Plumeria - Lady in Pink Plumeria - Maui Pink Spider Plumeria - Mix Plumeria - Montego Bay Plumeria - Panama White (Collected from a wild specimen in Panama on the beach) Plumeria - Pink, Yellow and White Large Petals Plumeria - Red Mix Plumeria - Son of A Pink Plumeria - thin white with pink and yellow Plumeria - Weeping Star Plumeria - White with yellow center Plumeria - Yellowish Red Plumeria - Mystery Australian (SEEDLING) Poinciana Tree - Orange Poppy - Lavender Poppy - Red Potentilla - Hamlet Potentilla - Red with yellow edge Pyracantha Coccinea Rhodochiton - Purple Bells Vine Ruellia Brittoniana - Mexican Petunia (SEEDS AND PLANT) Runner Bean Sago Palm (LARGE PLANT) Salvia - Bonfire Salvia - Red Rocket Sedum - Autumn Joy Shell Ginger Silver Lace Vine snapdragon - Mix Snoutbean Vine Solanum Melongena Sophora Tomentosa Strawberry Tree Sutherlandia Frutescens Sweet Cicely Thunbergia Alata Trumpet Lily - African Queen Turks Cap Verbena - Lavender Vinca - Mix Wisteria Zinnia - Orange Zinnia - Purple

My young Caladium Rubicundum has 2 sprouts after I let it dry and kept it dry for over 8 weeks. It turns out that I may be in S. Orlando for one of the Caladium festival days this summer. I'm going to try and attend for at least a half day. I'll take a ton of pics & post here if that works out. My Thai Caladium now has 2 full leaves and a spike. But the varigation is not showing up because I think I've been giving it too much sun. The 2nd sprout was mostly white until I gave it too much sun. The first leaf has a dime-sized sun burned dead spot on it. So I'm backing off on any direct sun. This pic shows the burn area in the center. The pic seems to accurately show its pinkish & purplish tones: My potted 10 lb Alocasia black stem corm had rot all over it when I attempted to re pot it last week. After getting rid of that pot, away went most of the fungus gnats. I sliced off the top 10% of the corm and put it in water but it seems to be getting rot when underwater too. This is my Alocasia Calidora at almost 3 1/2 mos - it was potted on Jan 31. It has 2 deviled-egg sized chunks cut out from near the top of its corm from rot when the corm was bring dried/stored. Earlier in this post you can see that I modified a black kitchen trash can to use as a pot for it since the corm was about 14" long. To reduce the soil that may be desirable to fungus gnats I put it in a smaller pot. It has 2 leaves now: