| Scientific Name: | Alocasia 'Amazonica' |
| Common Name: | African mask |
| Family Name: | Araceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin, S.E. Asia / Japan / China, South Asia / India |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Indoor foliage plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Vase |
| Texture: | Very coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Indoor plant, Waterside planting |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade, Sheltered |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Basal, Leathery, Heavily veined, Pinnate venation, Lustrous, Oblong, Ovate, Pinnately lobed, Sinuate, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | Spadix (& spathe), White, Green, Can flower any month |
| Fruit: | Berry (true), Red |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves basal, ovate-oblong, apex acute, base hastate-sagittate (arrowhead shaped), 20-40cm long x 10-20cm wide, succulent, glossy dark green, prominent whitish to silvery-green midrib and major veins, margin slightly lobed and wavy. | |