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It does n’t get much more prehistoric - looking for than this foliage . African masquerade ( OK , perchance we should have go with a different theme ! ) is a striking foliage industrial plant for containers and tropical - esque garden bed where you need a morsel of an edge . Its botanical name is ruffianly to immobilize down , but the American Horticultural Society’sEncyclopedia of Garden Plantsgoes withAlocasia sanderiana . You wo n’t need the name when you go shopping for the plant , though , since it ’s tough to escape this bold statement in a glasshouse or glasshouse . It ’s aboriginal to the Phillipines and can be brought indoors as a houseplant in the fall , since it ’s not hardy in most of the United States . It prefers fond shade and moist , well - drained territory .

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