ALOCASIA ‘ALEXANDRA REGINA’
Alocasia sanderiana x Alocasia sandersoni ‘Albescens” (unk)
PARENTAGE: Alocasia sanderiana x Alocasia sandersoni ‘Albescens’ (an unknown species/cultivar)
SYNONYMS: N/A
HYBRIDIZER: John Russell of Richmond Nurseries in Richmond, Surrey, UK
VARIEGATION: N/A
DESCRIPTION: “Whitish ribs and a dark green ground (likely referring to the color of the adaxial side)”
The parents of this hybrid provide a botanical conundrum. While Alocasia sanderiana remains well known into modern times, there are no references to an “Alocasia sandersoni ‘Albescens’, beyond the one mention linked above. It would have been odd for the Sanders brothers to name another cultivar after themselves and changing the accepted latinized epithet of ‘sanderiana’ to ‘sandersoni’. The “Albescens’ component likely was added due to this unknown parent having white spathes
The hybrid was likely named after Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom, who was coronated on August 9 August 1902 (Regina being Latin for queen).
INFLORESCENCE: N/A
Alocasia sanderiana, the only know parent of this hybrid
