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alocasia borneo giant elephant ear plant 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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★★★★★ 3
Solid, albeit abbreviated, coverage of Godot Game Engine 3.0
Format: Paperback
Solid introduction to Godot. Lightly touches on most topics, enough to get you up to speed an moving with it, though I personally would prefer a book that included much more depth on each area covered. Granted that wouldn't be a Sams "in 24 hours" book, but rather more of a "definitive guide" or "bible" which this is not. There's definitely enough meat to sink your teeth into, and being the first (and presently only) available book, it's worth the price.
Aside from content, docking one star for difficult to read glossy pages and light weight fonts in code samples... It's difficult to find a good angle to read the book without glare across the page from a light and my middle-aged eyes struggle a bit with the code samples.
UPDATE -- I've decided I have to dock another star. While the book is written in English, its authors are not native english speakers. It seems a better job could have been done with editing and review. There are a lot of clunky sentences, and several instances where the instruction is unclear.
A small example:
"A trick to add a simple outline is to add a new material to the Next Pass property. In this new material, set it to Unshaded, add a Grow of 0.01, change the Cull mode to front, and set its color to black."
For someone familiar with all the various groupings of properties in a spatial material node, that might be all the information needed, but this book is (I thought) aimed at people with less experience with the framework. Those handful of properties are scattered throughout several groups of properties, and in the case of grow, there's only a field to enter a value when you've clicked a checkbox first. This may be a minor thing, and one could probably make the argument that materials were covered a couple chapters prior -- though that section doesn't really mention all of these properties... Lots of little assumptions and oversights like that make the learning process a little more frustrating that it could be.
The information that's there is still great, but if you have little or no experience with Godot, expect to have to do some extra legwork to fill in some gaps on your own.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2018
★★★★★ 5
Great for newcomers to Godot
Format: Paperback
Excellent book for beginners with Godot. It will however require some previous programing knowledge this book isn't so much a teaching you to code book instead its an explanation of the Godot software.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2019
★★★★★ 3
Godot, a Beautiful Engine that is Great for any Budding Developer
Format: Kindle
My background: I am a professional VBA programmer that has used Unity3D as a hobby engine off and on for years. Until Godot, I had zero experience with Python. GDScript (Python-based) is easy enough to pick up once you understand its syntax IF you know other languages.
The Review:
The Kindle version is great. I have been following along quite easily. So far, I've kept up with what the book has told me to do and have learned quite a lot about about game development in general.
Here's the reason for the three star review: I cannot find where to download the assets they talk about in Hour 5. If it came on a disc for the physical copies, that's wonderful! Great for them. That does nothing for the Kindle version. I couldn't find anywhere in the book that said "got to this website to download the files for the projects you'll be doing in this book. So, I came here, where I bought the book from, looking for a FAQ or something that may lead me to where I can download the assets manually. I googled what I thought would find the files with nothing that I could do about it.
So, now I am stuck if I want to continue the book and use the assets they're using because there's nowhere clearly spelled out where to get the assets they've cited, page 73, "First, locate the “sprites” folder, which contains all the needed Sprites for this hour, in the accompanying “Godot-Hour 5” folder and copy it into your Godot project folder using your OS’s file explorer".
Good luck in your game development journeys!
Update 1: Got in touch with the publisher, they told me to get in touch with Amazon after trying to get the assets through their website, which proved to be unsuccessful.
Update 2: Spoke with Amazon, they said that they are merely the store, that they can only provide what is given to them to provide. Please contact the publisher.
Update 3: Contacted the publisher again about the issue citing what Amazon said. The publisher said they couldn't do anything about it that it is on "Kindle" to rectify.
Update 4: Ultimately, I returned the book. I was enjoying the book very much until this issue happened. I am going to rate this book a 1-star because of the fiasco that has to do with the assets that they mentioned in the "Hour 5" chapter that I never got access to. I hope that this helps anyone make a decision as to whether or not to purchase for themselves.
Update 5: I downgraded my review from 3-star to 1 star.
Update 6: I continued to press this situation with the publisher of the book. Come to find out, Pearson (cited as the publisher) is not the publisher, per-say but InformIT is. I was incorrect about something that I said earlier about there not being anything in the book for the assets download. I found it after digging some more. There is a page that states that you should go to informit.com/register and use a specific ISBN (the book lists it) to register the book for additional content, updates and what-not. I have done so. So, I dug around on the InformIT website looking for the content, hoping that in this whole debacle, I am just dumb. After a lengthy conversation with an associate from InformIT, the files are, infact, not available. The associate has forwarded my problem higher-up and I should expect an answer in 24-48 hours. I will update this review again once I get an answer. Again, I do not blame Amazon. I blame the publisher(s), Pearson and InformIT for this. Also, let it be known that I have purchased the physical copy of the book despite the problems I am having in hopes that I will still get good information from the book overall.
Update 7: It's been a while. I thought that my last update was posted. Though, it seems that it was not.
Here's the update: After a few back-and-forth with the publisher that ultimately was responsible for the book, they gave me a link to the assets. Since I cannot paste the link, I will say that you can google the assets yourself. If you're interested in them, please google "github godot 24 hours". My first query response was the exact link needed. I sincerely hope that everything that I've stated here helps.
I am going to start following along in the book again since I have the assets needed now. I am upgrading my review back to a three-star until I can fully assess the book. I think that it is asinine that I had to jump through the hoops that I did jump through to get the assets that were needed in order to follow along exactly. I don’t have time to be an asset artist on top of a programmer. I also don’t have too much money to buy assets. Thus, having the assets that were necessary to complete the projects as written would have been nice.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2019
★★★★★ 5
For Total Beginners in Godot, But I Still Learned a Few Tricks
Format: Kindle
Godot from Zero to Proficiency is a short book that aims to get total beginners up to speed with the Godot engine. The author does not cover programming (this is saved for the second book in the series) but rather just shows how to do basic things using the editor buttons. Even though I have been using Godot for over a year, I still learned a few interesting tricks, so that made the read worth it for me. However, the book is clearly designed for total beginners. Most of the topics are so basic you could probably figure them out just clicking buttons in the interface, but if you are new to Godot this might be a helpful light introduction.
As mentioned before, the book is not super in depth. It covers how to install the engine, navigating the interface, placing objects and modifying them, adding lights, exporting your game, and importing library assets. Very basic stuff. The artwork used in the book is not great, it definitely has a “programmer art” look to it, but it suffices to show you how things work. Honestly the book only scratches the surface, but if you’ve never used Godot before and are a beginner to game development it might be okay. If you have any experience, I would say look elsewhere, though I did learn a few tricks that made it worthwhile (and the price of the Kindle version was very reasonable).
So overall I would say this is one of the weaker Godot books out there, since it only covers a small portion of the engine. It does have good instructions on the basics of the editor, that was nice, but it doesn’t even show any programming. If you are a beginner and read this book, I think you’ll be more comfortable, but still not at a place to start making your game. There is a second part of this series (I will read that next) so that may help fill in the gaps. But considering the reasonable price (on the Kindle) and also that the book only took about 30 minutes to read, I can’t complain.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2021
★★★★★ 4
Pretty solid introduction to GoDot as a complete beginner.
Format: Paperback
I'm not new to programming but I am new to GoDot. I started this book as a complete beginner to GoDot with no other knowledge. This book gives a pretty solid foundation to start with. I'm sure most of this is probably online at this point but it was nice to have something I could easily view offline and come back to.
I took a star off as some parts of the edition I have has minor typos. Nothing that completely derailed my studies but something I had to recheck.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2026