Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Amorphs unleashed, 1 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
Mekos, there are a couple of hundred Amorphophallus and although I'm quite familiar with our two native species I'm on a bit of a learning curve with the others. Konjac and Bulbifer seem to be the most common ones in cultivation, followed closely by paeoniifolius. It's a bit difficult to ID the small plants. Your first one looks a lot lighter in colour than my bulbifer does. Even the stem on mine was darker when smaller. Although, to me, it looks a little like yours is suffering nutrition deficiency. I'm not an expert but maybe needs something with more nitrogen, or even has an iron or trace element deficiency. Then again, maybe it's just out of season. I haven't seen konjac in real life. It might be better to wait until they're larger for a more accurate identification.

RRM, half the galbra seed I collected were given to a friend, the other half I've planted. She's just going to scatter them but in areas which don't get any watering. That's so they can follow the normal dry season - wet season pattern.

Another photo of the paeoniifolius for perspective on just how big it is:
Height of unbranched stem - 105 cms (42 inches)
Length from branched out stem to tip of leaflet - 121 cms (48.4 inches)
Overall height from base of stem to leaf tip - 212 cms (84.8 inches)