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planting giant elephant ears Borneo Giant Elephant Ear – Plant DetectivesBorneo Giant Elephant Ear (Alocasia macrorrhizos 'Borneo Giant') Borneo Giant Elephant Ear is a dramatic tropical plant valued for its massive upright leaves, bold structure, and fast growing warm season presence. Its oversized green foliage creates an immediate tropical look in patio containers, poolside plantings, large garden beds, and frost free landscapes. In cold climates, it can be grown as a seasonal outdoor feature or kept in a large
Borneo Giant Elephant Ear (Alocasia macrorrhizos 'Borneo Giant')
Borneo Giant Elephant Ear is a dramatic tropical plant valued for its massive upright leaves, bold structure, and fast-growing warm-season presence. Its oversized green foliage creates an immediate tropical look in patio containers, poolside plantings, large garden beds, and frost-free landscapes. In cold climates, it can be grown as a seasonal outdoor feature or kept in a large container and moved indoors before frost. With warmth, rich soil, steady moisture, and protection from harsh wind, Borneo Giant Elephant Ear brings impressive scale and lush texture to indoor and outdoor spaces.
Distinctive Features
Borneo Giant Elephant Ear is known for its enormous green leaves, which can reach several feet long under warm, humid, well-grown conditions. The leaves are held upright on sturdy petioles, giving the plant a tall, architectural look rather than a low spreading habit. In tropical and subtropical climates, mature plants can become very large, while container-grown or indoor plants usually remain smaller. Flowers may occur on mature plants as a spathe and spadix, but this selection is grown primarily for its bold foliage and commanding tropical form.
Growing Conditions
- Sun: Grows best in bright indirect light, filtered sun, or partial shade, with protection from harsh afternoon sun that can scorch the large leaves.
- Soil: Prefers fertile, organically rich, well-drained soil that holds consistent moisture without staying stagnant or sour.
- Water: Performs best with regular moisture during active growth and should not be allowed to dry out completely in warm weather.
- USDA Zones: Hardy outdoors in USDA Zones 9 to 11, while colder climates should treat it as a seasonal patio plant, houseplant, or overwintered container plant.
- Mature Size: Typically reaches about 6 to 10 feet tall and 4 to 7 feet wide outdoors in warm climates, while indoor or container plants usually stay smaller.
- Habit: Forms a large upright tropical plant with massive leaves rising from a clumping base on tall, sturdy stems.
Ideal Uses
- Focal Point: Use as a bold tropical focal point in large containers, poolside plantings, patios, courtyard gardens, or protected landscape beds where its oversized foliage can stand out.
- Patio Container: Grow in a large decorative pot to create dramatic summer height and texture that can be moved or protected before frost.
- Tropical Garden: Plant in warm, frost-free landscapes with bananas, cannas, caladiums, gingers, and other bold foliage plants for a lush layered effect.
- Indoor Feature: Use in bright interior spaces with enough room, warmth, and humidity to support its large leaves and upright growth.
- Poolside Planting: Place in protected poolside or patio areas where its broad foliage can add resort-style texture without needing flowers for impact.
Low Maintenance Care
- Watering: Water regularly during active growth to keep the soil evenly moist, then reduce watering when growth slows in cooler seasons.
- Humidity: Provide higher humidity when grown indoors or in dry climates to help reduce leaf edge browning and stress.
- Wind Protection: Site in a sheltered location because strong wind can tear or damage the large ornamental leaves.
- Fertilizing: Feed during the active growing season with a balanced fertilizer to support large foliage and vigorous growth.
- Overwintering: Move container plants indoors before frost or protect dormant plants in mild climates according to local winter conditions.
- Leaf Cleanup: Remove yellowing, torn, or spent leaves as needed to keep the plant looking clean and encourage fresh growth.
Why Choose Borneo Giant Elephant Ear?
- Massive Foliage: Produces oversized green leaves that create bold tropical impact in containers and landscapes.
- Architectural Form: Adds strong upright structure and height without relying on flowers for visual interest.
- Fast Warm-Season Growth: Responds quickly to heat, moisture, and fertility with impressive foliage production during the growing season.
- Container Friendly: Works well in large patio pots where it can be featured outdoors in summer and protected from cold weather.
- Tropical Effect: Brings lush resort-style texture to patios, pool areas, garden beds, and bright indoor spaces.
Borneo Giant Elephant Ear is an excellent choice for gardeners who want a tropical plant with serious scale, texture, and visual impact. Its enormous upright leaves, fast warm-season growth, and commanding form make it a standout option for large containers, protected landscapes, patios, and dramatic foliage-focused plantings.
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★★★★★ 4
Good product, expensive price, poor adhesive
Premium packaging for a premium device. Useful for IR remote signal delivery with extra functions on the side. Price though is luxury for it’s use. Used this for a Logitech Harmony hub control of an non-smart electric fireplace. Setup is a breeze but only if you’re tech savvy. Highly recommend to watch the YouTube video for information on all it’s application. There a many other cheaper devices similar to this available on Amazon that I could have used for the same application. If you have a need for multiple control within the same vicinity of other devices, this may be more useful for you. However, if you plan on utilizing an IR repeater/extender for only a single device and would like to save some money, don’t buy this one. This device works quite well though. Have had no issues achieving the effect needed. Only four stars due to the poor adhesive on the emitter attachment. As stated earlier, I used this on an electric fireplace with a glass surface. I used the attachable emitter to the front glass sensor where the IR receiver was located on the fireplace. After only one day, the emitter attachment fell off even though I made sure the glass was thoroughly cleaned prior to adhering it. Otherwise a good product.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2019
★★★★★ 5
Denon avr ir remote port works great with sewell products
I bought a new entertainment center with glass doors and wasn't getting good signal range with the door closed. Plus i couldnt get a good of line site, since this cabinet was shorter than the orginal, and the location for my avr was further to the left than before and now my line of sight to the receiver was blocked from other parts of the room due to high couch back.
I tried a couple different cheap $10 devices that used stick on transmitters/receiver buttons but they were clumsy and didn't provide me a total solution for my room layout.
Works fantastic with a denon x1800 receiver (and many other models). It works directly with the denon's ir remote port in the back of the avr port. The solution is actually quite simple.
Plug a stereo 3.5 mm male to male plug in the denon ir port in the back of the avr and and the other end to the orange emitter box(puck). The pics are about the size of an oreo double stuff cookie Tuck the orange box/puck away whereever and plug the power in. The box doesn't need to seen or be pointed towards anything. It's location is only limited by the length of your stereo cable and access to AC power
Put the blue box puck anywhere in the room where you have general line of sight to it from where you will be using your remote, and plug power in. In my case, its sitting on top of one of my tower speakers. From there it clears the back of the couch and can see from the family room, eat-in kitchen area, and the kitchen beyond.
Done.
I didn't need or use any of the included emitter or transmitter cables, though if you dont have a denon, or other brand avr with an ir port to plug into , or also want to hide the blue puck ( in which case attach the included sensor cable), you'll need them. But for denon users with an ir port, you just use the two pucks and their usb power adapters. Simple.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2026
★★★★★ 1
Worked good then died at six months (Updated)
Worked good for a couple of months, then started to develop a lag between when you pressed a button on the remote, and when the TV would respond. If I moved the speaker blocking the TV’s IR receiver, and pointed the remote at it, it worked perfectly. Add the IR blaster back in and the delay returns. The delay kept getting longer and longer, sometimes 5 to 10 seconds. Then it just died. Would not pass any IR signals, even though the receiver and emitter both had power. Tried rebooting, changing communication channels to no avail. Out of Amazon return window. Manufacturer wants you do go through a troubleshooting process for warranty that is too complicated and time consuming. Customer Service Rep at Sewell send me a warranty replacement.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2025
★★★★★ 5
Nice Product and Customer Service
I ordered this BlastIR Wireless Pro IR Repeater from Sewell to replace a wired version of an IR repeater from another company. We have moved our TV on to a wall location and are in the process of hiding all the wiring out of sight behind walls and/or in a cabinet. We still have some wires to go, but this product has enabled us to eliminate the IR wiring all together. It's a real improvement in both looks and performance over the cheaper, wired version we originally tried.
The BlasterIR's Receiver is the component that faces the room and receives the IR signal from our remote controls. It's small enough to fit in the space between our sound bar and the bottom of the TV. It's range is great for our room size (about 22' long and 18' wide) and picks up the remotes signal from a side angle that's almost parallel to the TV itself. The receiver is powered through one of the USB ports integrated into the TV (although the device itself supports either a USB or regular plug-in option). I haven't used them yet but Sewell appears to have provided a few options to help with affixing the IR devices in their final positions including some adhesive pads and a magnetic pad option as well.
I'm still playing around with the permanent placement of the IR Blaster Emitter. It sits inside a closed cabinet and faces the concealed cable box receiver, router and DVR components. It retransmits the various IR signals it receives from the IR receiver by blasting that signal to anything it faces. I just placed it in the cabinet about 5" away from the devices I wanted to control, plugged it in and it worked with no other set up.
So far the BlastIR is working seamlessly and with much better function response time than the cheaper IR version we'd tried at first. The lag time between when a button is pressed on the remote control and the action taking place on the device I'm communicating with is minimal. The emitter itself is plugged into an outlet on a surge protector powering the other in-cabinet devices, although it too could be powered via the provided USB connection if desired.
As a note, we did experience a shipping issue during our ordering process. The order it self was processed quickly and shipped in a timely manner. However, there was an issue with our actual receipt of the product and the USPS who reported it delivered to our mailbox when in fact it had not been. Regardless, we reached out to Sewell directly and they quickly resolved the issue for us with no problems and in a timely manner. I would recommend both this IR Blaster Pro product as well as Sewell as a trusted company itself.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2021
★★★★★ 3
Does NOT Transmit Through Walls
Quick and easy setup! Works great within the room. However, will not work effectively between walls (i.e. - AV closet to living room).
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Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2026