Tropical Zone Gardening: Restless natives of the Top End, 1 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
Cheerpeople, my A paeonifolius doesn't flower each year, sometimes it skips a season. But the leaf is huge, although this dry season I should repot it. I've a few smaller ones in the ground but they haven't flowered yet, that I've noticed.

This is another of our native ones, Amorphophallus glabra. Looks different to A paeonifolius, grows in sandstone areas often on rocky ledges with only thin layers of sand and leaf mulch but I've also found them in pockets of monsoon forest near springs. This is one of the ones I had growing at home but they all wasted away over a number of years.

17 March 2009: A typo above, it should be Amorphophallus galbra

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This message was edited Mar 24, 2009 6:24 PM