Tropicals & Tender Perennials: help i.d. typhonium, 1 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
Kalpavriksha, altitude in the tropics, especially places like New Guinea, means a small temperature range and constant high humidity. Where the photo of (probably) C. kokodense was taken was somewhere around the 1000 metre level. Evolving around that altitude with a dense forest canopy makes those plants less tolerant of the higher temperatures and lower (variable) humidity of the lowlands. But C. cupidispathum is more of a lowland plant so it doesn't mind the higher temperatures.

I'm sticking with lowland Cyrtosperma, the temperatures stay constantly too hot here to spend time trying to make cooler weather plants survive. I have cupidispathum, merkusii and johnstonii

This is my C. johntsonii. The leaves are greener than the ones in your photo but the veining is red.