sacha wrote:
: On 2014-01-12 05:37:32 +0000,
: ] said:

: Dear All,
: Can anyone identify this houseplant?
:
: http://www.mklab.rhul.ac.uk/~tom/foliage_ceramic1.jpg
: http://www.mklab.rhul.ac.uk/~tom/foliage_ceramic2.jpg
: http://www.mklab.rhul.ac.uk/~tom/foliage_ceramic3.jpg
:
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: Alocasia amazonica Polly. Something 'mask' is an additional name, I think.

Many thanks Sasha and everyone else who responded. That is certainly
it. I notice I had already made one mistake by watering it with tap
water. BTW It is a pleasure to still be able to get such good and
prompt advice on Usenet and not have to resort to web 2.0 or other
proprietary web based services.

Cheers
Tom.

Ps. The email address in the header is just a spam-trap.
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Tom Crane, Dept. Physics, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham Hill,
Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, England.
Email: T dot Crane at rhul dot ac dot uk