Description
Alocasia Purple Sword or Alocasia Lauterbachiana is a member of the Araceae family. The Alocasia Purple Sword is a rare cultivar named after the German botanist, Carl Lauterbach who collected specimens of the plant in Borneo in the early 1900s. Alocasia Lauterbachiana was first described by the german botanist Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler in 1905.