spotted this large one in Findlay Ohio in intersection maintained by senior citizens. Managed to snag a potted plant sample from same and got no info on what the heck it was. Need info to reproduce and overwinter.
Hello Johnny5aci, looks like an A. konjac to me. It is more easy to grow as A. paeoniifolius ( campanulatus is a synonym ) and doesn't need tropical climate or greenhouse. Fertilize it well, water regularly until autumn. Then it will wilt on its own to show you the end of its season. You may take its tuber out of the pot and store it in your basement dry, dark and no freeze. It produces each year some offsets to give away to friends, sell on ebay or to enlarge its population in your garden. Use pots at least 3x as the tubers diameter. The old tuber disappears into the leave ( the whole plant is one leave! ) and this leave produces a bigger tuber. And konjacs like big pots! When the tuber weighs 2 pd. or more it will bloom in february or march. This bloom is very attractive but don't keep it indoor! And you should not use it for a wedding bouquet! The sterile appendix of its inflorescence imitates a carrion with its smell. Lots of fertile male and female flowers are to be found under the appendix inside the spathe - a typical aroid bloom. Good growing hermann
