Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Amorphs unleashed, 1 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
The A. paeoniifolius plant in the first photo on this thread has died off for the winter. It started off as a 2016 gram (4.44 pounds) tuber and grew up to 227 centimetresl (7.45 feet) tall. The other day I took the tuber out and tried to weigh it. The scales (electronic) only go to 5000 grams (11.02 pounds). When I started to lower the tuber the scales just bottomed out straight away. Have to find someone with scales that'll go up to about 7 to 10 kilograms.

Apart from about 4 small A paeoniifolius plants, my only Amorph still showing no sign of going dormant is A. titanum, even though we're half way through the first month of winter. The way it's going it might keep going right through to next summer.

This is the large Amorphophallus paeoniifolius tuber now. There's lots of pups formed for next season.