Hi Guys!... I am new here and I need your help. I have this beautiful plant that I purchased a few years ago in a yard sale. At the end of winter it died, disappeared and I though my investment was lost. For some reason I did not use the planter for anything else. To my surprise, at the beginning of summer, the plant bloomed again. For the last 3-4 years I have been asking everyone if they know the name of the palnt or have any ideas what it is. No one knows. Everyone loves the plant when they see it and ask what it is. It was even sent to UF-University of Florida IFAS Extensions and they could not come up with and answer, I am hoping someone here can recognize it of guide in the right direction. I started with one and now I have about 10. As I've been transplanting them *** they sprout, I keep getting new ones. They seem to grow bigger every year, the original one I got is not about 40 inches tall. It was much smaller when I got it. They will die at the end of summer and will come back at the beginning of summer. I received a letter from UF-University of Florida IFAS Extensions telling me that it might be a family of Amorphophallus paeoniifolius http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...SsIG3-D-BSrpM:;bxyzgHSP7TREJM;JSsIG3-D-BSrpM: Other family members. http://www.kew.org/plants-fungi/Amorphophallus-titanum.htm http://www.aroid.org/genera/generapage.php?genus=amorphophallus http://biology.fullerton.edu/facilities/greenhouse/amorphophallus/ mine has no flowers. Hope you can help me. Thanks.
I added some additional info I found to the original post. Some links. So far looks like I am the only one in Florida with this plant...LOL Happy to say that I managed to replant them and new ones keep coming out.....
Here is excellent information: http://www.exoticrainforest.com/Amorphophallus konjac pc.html You may be interested in this excellent organization: International Aroid Society http://www.aroid.org/
Thank you you togata57!.. came across this link and quite an interesting finding.. http://www.exoticrainforest.com/Amorphophallus konjac pc.html
After doing some reading on this link, I wonder if I can make a tea with these leaves http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.185.4396&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Not sure what is happening but it's looking interesting. Over the years this plant has gotten bigger and bigger. It has sprout green from the beginning, but this year it is coming out a different color and the stem looks quite bigger than the year before. So far I haven't seen much about this plants except for some youtube stuff. In all my reading about this plant, I understand that it comes from Asia and it's a rare thing here in US. I know they have one of these family in Brooklyn Botanical Garden. Here is what it looks like right now. It most show that I am a proud owner of this beautiful plant which has given me many babies and now I have bout 10 of them, all different sizes...
