I am from india. I found a plant in my backyard (photos of the plant have been attached). I have not been able to identify it. Please help.
There is a lot of information online. e.g. if it is a bulb that naturalizes you can make sure to encourage and not interfere with that growth, and not over-water the area around the plant according to its needs. I suggest you Goggle the name to find out what makes it thrive in your area. Congratulations on having such a wonderful plant.
Elephant Yam is the name for the tuber, which is edible.... It's native to your area, and also widely cultivated for the tuber.
Whoa! Just saw your magnificent plant, sharivn! It is a beauty! If I found this in my back yard I would be ecstatic!!! Thanks for letting us see it: really cheered me up!
Glad to finally stumble to a site that helped us identify a flower in my friend's garden. Mr. Mosquin of UBC Plant Research Center led me to this thread. We are based in the Philippines and this bloom greeted us several days ago, and it looked exactly the same as sharivn's. We purchased the plant at a weekend market last year. We are not familiar with it but it looked like a papaya tree and the seller said it yields large purple flowers. The seller does not know the name of the plant though, other than informing us it is not common in Manila. This is how the plant looked like when we purchased it and it looked beautiful in the terracotta pot where it was re-planted. It thrived for a couple of months till the leaves started drying out and the beautiful trunk shrivelled and was reduced to a stump. It was watered regularly (because the roots still looked healthy) but it looked like a lost cause. Summers here can be extremely hot so it was moved to a shady spot. Rainy season started three weeks ago and this red cabbage-like growth appeared. Nothing can be more exciting than finding a beautiful, unfamiliar plant in the garden. More so since we never expected it to look that way considering we purchased a small tree. We are glad we did not discard the plant even though it looked dead for quite some time. We did not notice any offensive smell though just by standing near the plant so you can still appreciate its beauty without worries about the stink. You have to put your face really close to the center of the bloom to smell the putrid odor.
That is absolutely beautiful! We just bought our house so I am going through the same thing, but I would love to find that in my back yard it's really amazing!
