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elephant ear plant alocasia regal shield Alocasia 'Regal Shield' – Majestic Tropical PlantThe Alocasia 'Regal Shield', also known as Elephant Ear 'Regal Shield', is a popular hybrid resulting from the cross between Alocasia odora and Alocasia reginula. Created by LariAnn Gardner of Aroidia Research, this tropical plant is prized for its massive leaves and dramatic dark colours. It brings a striking touch of exoticism and a majestic appearance to any interior. Key Features Foliage: Large, thick, and glossy leaves, deep dark green on top.
The Alocasia 'Regal Shield', also known as Elephant Ear 'Regal Shield', is a popular hybrid resulting from the cross between Alocasia odora and Alocasia reginula. Created by LariAnn Gardner of Aroidia Research, this tropical plant is prized for its massive leaves and dramatic dark colours. It brings a striking touch of exoticism and a majestic appearance to any interior.
Key Features
- Foliage: Large, thick, and glossy leaves, deep dark green on top. The underside of the leaves displays rich shades of purple with very contrasting light green veins, giving it a regal appearance. Leaves can reach a considerable size.
- Habit: Upright and erect, forming an impressive silhouette. Can reach 30-90 cm (1-3 feet) in height indoors.
- Growth: Moderately vigorous, takes a few years to reach its mature size.
- Care: Moderate, requires warm temperatures and consistent humidity.
- Appeal: Primarily cultivated for the size and dramatic colour of its foliage, which is a true focal point.
Care Tips
- Light: Prefers several hours of bright indirect light. Can tolerate medium light conditions. Indoors, it can even handle a bit of direct light as glass diffuses harsh sunlight slightly. Outdoors, it's best to keep it away from intense direct sun to prevent leaf burn.
- Watering: Water regularly to keep the soil evenly moist, but not soggy. The substrate should be damp like a wrung-out towel, not dripping wet. Allow the top of the soil to dry slightly before watering again to prevent root rot. Not drought tolerant.
- Soil: Plant in a chunky, well-draining potting mix, rich in organic matter, that retains some moisture. An aroid mix (such as equal parts coco coir, perlite, and orchid bark) is ideal.
- Humidity: Thrives in warm and humid conditions, with humidity above 50%, ideally over 60%. A humidifier or grouping with other plants can help.
- Temperature: Prefers temperatures between 18°C and 27°C (65°F and 80°F). Does not tolerate frost; must be brought indoors when nighttime temperatures drop below 15°C (60°F). Avoid cold drafts.
- Fertilization: Benefits from regular fertilization during the growing season. Apply a balanced liquid fertilizer once a month from early spring to late summer. Stop fertilizing when growth slows in the fall.
- Pruning: Pruning is not mandatory, but tidying up old, yellowed, or damaged leaves is advisable to redirect the plant's energy to new growth.
- Propagation: By division of offshoots (baby plants) or by corms (small bulbs) that form at the base of the mother plant.
Height and Width (Estimates)
- Height: Up to 1-3 feet (30-90 cm) indoors.
- Width: Up to 1-2 feet (30-60 cm) indoors.
Caution: Plant considered mildly toxic to humans and pets if ingested. Handle with caution.
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It's an excellent textbook from the Barron's series of which I have this author's other books. I love the set up. I'm constantly trying to improve my Spanish in different categories....these books are amazing.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2024
★★★★★ 5
A must-read for anyone interested in communication studies, rhetoric, American public debates
Format: Paperback
In this seminal book, Fisher expounds his "narrative paradigm," a sweeping theory of human communication and more. Professor Emeritus at USC's Annenberg School of Communication, Fisher's discipline was rhetoric. But the book's subtitle -- "Toward a Philosophy of Reason, Value, and Action" -- isn't a stretch. Fisher's theory is a grand project extending its purview way beyond the communication department's door. At root is Fisher's rejection of what he calls the "rational world paradigm," which falsely separates logos from mythos, reason from imagination, fact from value. Doesn't work that way, Fisher says. No such thing as a value-free belief, assertion, or action. Instead, we evaluate according to a "logic of good reasons" -- reasons we value as good -- rooted in the narratives of our experience.
An under-appreciated aspect of Fisher's work is the application of his theory to American politics. America's most enduring narrative is The American Dream. But that dream comprises two sub-narrative strands: the "materialistic myth" and the "moralistic myth." These two strands broadly represent conservative and progressive impulses respectively, but those threadbare categories don't do Fisher's explication justice. The two myths find their roots in the narratives of the earliest Americans, and have been battling it out ever since. It's a credible understanding of the history of American public moral debates.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2010
★★★★★ 4
Insider's Book
Format: Paperback
Wlater R. Fisher is an expert in his field. His grasp of classical theory is daunting. Human Communication as Narrative explains his new theory well. However, it IS an insider's book, intended for scholars. I have a master's degree in rhetoric and composition, and my progress through it was slow--however, this was more attributable to my having stopped at an MA than it was to Fisher. I found his theory exhaustively researched, skillfully and thoughfully developed, and eminently applicable to the practice of contemporary rhetorical study. I would regard this book as a must-have for any serious student of rhetoric.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2011
★★★★★ 5
Not only will this give you a great overview/introduction, but Fisher is a good writer as ...
Format: Paperback
I'm a fan of the Narrative Paradigm, and this is the seminal work on that. Not only will this give you a great overview/introduction, but Fisher is a good writer as well. Very clear, succinct, and engaging.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2016
★★★★★ 5
The Dark Roots of Liberalism
Format: Hardcover
Italian philosopher/intellectual history Domenico Losurdo's study of the origins of liberalism is a tour de force of thorough scholarship and rigorous critique. Losurdo seems to have read all of the collected works of all of the significant thinkers in the liberal tradition, from Locke to de Tocqueville and beyond, and has created a coherent and compelling narrative of their themes and variations, as well as their rhetorical tropes and myriad contradictions.
Classical liberalism, as here presented, is an attempt to translate the world, in all its richness and mystery, into property, and to transform property into the fullest expression of both nature and nature's God. It involves fetishizing "liberty" and disdaining equality, which is seen -- correctly -- as potentially compromising the God-given prerogatives of property holders.
Losurdo's liberals divide the world into the "community of the free" -- always a minority -- and the servile majority. These masses do not deserve liberty or political participation because they perceive government as a way to address human suffering, and not simply as a bulwark protecting the divine rights of capital, i.e. the "private" realm. The classical liberal sees government as good to the extent that it has no social function at all -- because poverty and radical inequity are understood not as the outcome of human social and political arrangements, but as a reflection of immutable natural law and simple human frailty. Social Darwinist and eugenic motifs float through the Liberal symphony almost from the beginning, supplanting without really changing the earlier Protestant notion of predestination, but shifting the location of eternal reward or damnation to the marketplace and workplace.
Thus liberalism sides against social emancipation, whether of slaves or peasants or factory laborers. The job of workers within a liberal commonwealth, as depicted by most of these thinkers, is to embrace their freedom to starve and cherish the institutions that oppress them in the sweet and holy name of Liberty. Slavery makes many of these thinkers uneasy, but it is not as profoundly disturbing to them as the prospect of central government tampering with the sacred rights of property holders by abolishing an institution that makes a mockery of any concept of human liberty.
It is the radical thinkers of the French Revolution, and those influenced by them, who come out favorably here -- the ones who believe that the community must be seen as one body, and that freedom and dignity belong to all, without exception. Losurdo reminds us that it was not classical liberals who abolished slavery -- it was the Black Jacobins who brought the Rights of Man to the subjugated Africans of Haiti in history's only successful slave rebellion (at least since Moses). They were supported by the religiously inspired abolitionists, who saw slavery in moral rather than capitalist terms.
Losurdo shows that liberalism took on the despotism of Church and Crown, only to create a harsher and colder absolutism of Money and Market, wrapped up in the rhetoric of Reason and tied with the ribbon of Freedom. And though classical liberalism has mutated over time and allowed the community of the free to expand somewhat, its fundamental biases remain in place, as witnessed in every ding-dong attack against "big government" or the "nanny state." Losurdo's "counter-history" of liberalism places these tediously reflexive political gambits in historical context, showing that they are rooted in a vision of the state as a kind of gated community, serving those within the threshold of privilege, suppressing those on the outside.
At a time when political discourse centers on the percentages of the included and excluded, the worthy and the unworthy -- Occupy Wall Street's 1 percent and 99 percent, Mitt Romney's 47 percent (which was also his percentage of the vote) -- Losurdo's study is highly relevant and enlightening. It underscores the deep tensions between classical liberalism -- with its governance by and for the elite, and passive citizenship for the rest -- and the ideals of participatory and inclusive democracy, i.e., social democracy. It is an important book, and I recommend it to everyone with an interest in the history of political theory, and a desire to understand why our own political processes seem to take place in an abstract realm so cosmically distant from the reality of everyday life.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2012