Day
twenty-four.
Good and bad news: My plant
is starting to flower, and I have nowhere to place it outside!
This might be
the fruit of an other Amorphophallus, but it is pretty
close.
The bottom of the caudex
is smooth.
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| Author: | Karl
Heinrich Emil Koch, 1858 |
| Family: |
ARACEAE |
| Origin: |
China,
Korea Philippines, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam |
| Soil: |
Peat |
| Water:
|
Maximum |
| Sun: |
Medium |
| Thickness: |
40
Centimetres |
| Height: |
175
Centimetres |
| Flower:
|
Dark
Red / Brown |
| Propagate: |
Seeds/Bulbs |
| Names:
|
Leopardstilk, Corpse Flower, Devil's Tongue, Voodoo Lily,
Leopard Palm, Snake Palm, Umbrella Arum |
| Synonyms: |
Proteinophallus rivieri,
Joseph Dalton Hooker, 1875.
Amorphophallus
rivieri,
Dur. ex Riviere, 1869.
Amorphophallus mairei, H.Lév.
Amorphophallus nanus, H.Li & C.L.Long.
Amorphophallus palmiformis, Durieu ex Rivière.
Brachyspatha konjac, K.Koch.
Conophallus konjak, Schott.
Conophallus konniaku, Schott ex Fesca
Hydrosme rivierei, Engl.
Proteinophallus rivierei, Hook.f.
Tapeinophallus rivierei, Baill. |
This member of the Araceae
family was described by Karl
Heinrich Emil Koch in 1858. It is found in China,
Korea Philippines, Thailand, Tibet and Vietnam,
growing in a rich peat with lots of water in summer. The single leaf
of the plant will get 175 centimetres high, the sub-terrain bulb 40 centimetres
in diameter. The extreme large flower is dark red-brown, and stinks!
The plant can be reproduced both by seeds and dividing of the bulbs.
SubFamily: Aroideae,
Tribe: Thomsonieae
The genera name from ancient
Greek amorphos, 'without form, misshapen' and phallos,
'penis',
referring to the shape of the prominent spadix. The species name
may originate from the local name.
The flowers have a
significant odour of - rotting meat.
This plant has a
sub-terrain bulb, and is a little out of my league, but who would
turn an offer like this down. I couldn't say No to Alex. |
