# Please help identify this plant.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-identify-this-plant/486260
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [February 17, 2009, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-identify-this-plant/486260 "2009-02-17T13:43:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2009, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-identify-this-plant/486260/1 "2009-02-17T13:43:31Z")
[This is the plant](http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x163/faeriehazel/SDMB/plant.jpg). It was left behind at my boyfriend’s apartment by previous owners. The leaves are kind of rubbery and it seems to be hardy - he waters it whenever the mood strikes him and it’s pretty much the way it was when we found it.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2009, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-identify-this-plant/486260/2 "2009-02-17T13:50:47Z")
Alocasia - possibly Alocasia x amazonica
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### Author:  [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2009, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-identify-this-plant/486260/3 "2009-02-17T13:57:12Z")
Yes, that’s exactly what it is. Thanks! 🙂