Okay, I have an Amorphophallus and I came across a link to the Int. Aroid Society in another post and noticed they have a write up on the plant. When I found the plant it had been dumped out the back of a Nursery and was re-shooting. After careful extraction and claiming as a dumped plant I took it home. I did not get too much info on the plant except that there are just a couple of species, which I now find out is totally wrong. Can anyone help me i.d. this plant so I can get some more information on it? Also what stage is the plant at, I can't figure out if it's flowering or what? The tuber was bigger than my fist and each year it shoots and opens to what looks like a single leaf, very much like the little surrounding ones. Any help pointing me in the right direction is appreciated.
A. konjac comes to mind, given the rounded tuber you're describing, but doesn't seem quite right... - have you ever seen in bloom? Or does it just shoot up that big leaf? (normal behaviour for an immature Amorpho, btw - when it's mature, it will follow that one big leaf with one big inflorescence) It will become easier to ID it once it blooms. Chungii, are you a member of the Aroid-L discussion group? If you're not, I'd suggest you join - the link is on the IAS website. They will definitely know which Amorphophallus this is, or at least can point you in the right direction.
No it's never flowered but after seeing some of the flowers on the IAS I can't wait. I guess it's time to join another plant forum :} Thank you Lorax.
It is Am bulbifer , and prob. grown from one of the hundreds of tubers formed on the leaf of a mature plant , or even a seedling from the thousands of seeds that set everytime it flowers . If ever a plant deserves to be classified as a weed this sp. does ! And I love Aroids .. I find it ridiculous that it is still listed on ebay as a "rare" !!!!!!! plant , and people will pay $50 for what I used to feed to the pig . It will grow in full sun and get a leaf up to 1m ++ high .
2 years growth in the ground will mature it enough to flower . here is some of the 30 + leaf tubers from a flowering sized plant I had last year ,
That looks like it. I have seen those on the leaf before and thought they may have been tubers (I think I did plant some last year but I can't remember where). Never seen it flower though, it can't be far off I've had it in ground at least 3 years. Are they decent flowers? As for what people will pay on ebay - it seems all you need is the word "rare" in front of a name and it's worth 10 x more than at your regular garden centre.
