Tropicals & Tender Perennials: My special mystery aroid, 1 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
Rachel, I'll get there, somehow, with a lot of help.

Alistair, that group you say are likely to be the same are all growing within 30 metres of one another. I've checked a few hundred metres around by randomly criss-crossing the area but never saw anything else. The Spear Grass is coming up so it's getting more difficult to find anything, particularly the narrow leafed varieties. The first one (on this thread) is on the other side of the river in identical habitat, occupies much the same size area but is far more numerous. I've probably only checked about 100 metres around those.

So far they've been in a sandy loam that's wet but drains well. It's very open or sparse woodland near the waterlogged river flats, but slightly elevated above those.

The purple flower in the photo above was finished the next day, withered. In its withered state it looked a lot like the broad leafed one that I got back to too late for the flowering.