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Nursery Direct
Zebra Plant
Alocasia zebrina
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
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Supplied in 400mm
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Zebra Plant - Alocasia zebrina
The leaf stalks are the reason to grow Alocasia zebrina. Each tall petiole is banded in dark brown over pale green and cream, and it holds a plain, arrow shaped green leaf out at an angle, so the plant reads as a set of patterned lines, not a mass of foliage. A rainforest aroid from the Philippines, it suits a bright covered patio, a sheltered frost free courtyard in South East Queensland or a well lit interior, and it is the choice when a pot plant has to carry real graphic weight.
Why the Zebra Plant
Striped petioles: The zebra banding on every stalk is the feature, and it shows best when the plant is lit from the side.
Upright habit: Leaves rise on long stalks instead of spreading, so it fits narrow spaces beside doors, walls and windows.
Indoors or out: It performs as an interior plant in bright indirect light and outdoors in warm, humid, sheltered shade.
A winter rest: In a cool winter it may slow down or drop its leaves, then reshoot from the corm in spring; this is normal behaviour, not decline.
Toxicity warning: Biting into the stalks, leaves or corm releases needle shaped oxalate crystals that swell the lips, tongue and throat, so it belongs where children, cats and dogs cannot reach it, and trimming is done in gloves.
Ideal Applications
Bright interiors: In a glazed pot beside a window with filtered light, it gives a living room or foyer a strong vertical line.
Covered patios and verandahs: Shelter from wind, rain and direct sun keeps the leaves clean and the stalks upright.
Pattern among plain foliage: Set in a cluster of pots with maidenhair and bird's nest ferns, its banded stalks break up a shaded corner of plain green leaves.
Frost free shade gardens: In warm coastal districts it can go in the ground beneath a canopy, in soil with very good drainage.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (feature/avenue): 0.8 to 1.2m between plants in a group
Best Planting Season: Late spring to summer, once nights are reliably warm
Soil & Drainage: Chunky, free draining mix of quality potting mix, orchid bark and perlite; in the ground, open, humus rich soil that never stays sodden
Establishment Care: Water when the top few centimetres of mix are dry through the warm months, and water far less in winter, when a cold, wet corm rots. Feed with a half strength liquid fertiliser every few weeks from spring to early autumn, and check the leaf undersides for spider mite, which favours dry, air conditioned rooms.
Plant Details
Height: 0.8 to 1.5m
Width: 0.6 to 1m
Growth Rate: Moderate; quickest in warm, humid weather
Foliage: Evergreen in warm conditions; may shed its leaves during a cool winter rest
Light: Bright filtered light to partial shade, with no direct afternoon sun
Native to: The Philippines
Flower Colour: Insignificant; a small pale green spathe, rarely produced in cultivation
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
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Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
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How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







