CLOSED: Wanted: good sized Arum Italicum tubers

I know It may be a bit early to trade these around but I am just looking.. I will have scads of amorphophallus Konjac tubers to trade in the spring.

Chris

oops .. I will hace amorphophallus konjac tubers to trade in the Fall...

Is this the plant where the flower stinks so bad?

Yeah its the plant that makes really big stinky flowers ... Thet look like a Giant purple calla lily ... and smell horrible .. but are very nice..

Ill post a picture of this years flower below..

Chris

I'd love to see it! Is that a picture of the flower? You can tell I know nothing about this plant. But, on the other hand, I do have some Arum Italicum tubers, so I'm wanting to find out more.

Ok heh .. I can tell you all you want..

I think these guys are from china... They are in the Genus amorphophallus ... of which there are many, some small some big. This one makes fairly big flowers, Ive been told up to 7 feet tall. Right now they are in their leaf phase so they look like the picture ill post below...During this time they dont grow much above the soil, but they do grow massive tubers beneath the soil... One of the ones In the pic below had a tuber at about one pound when I planted it and when I dug it up the next winter it was 5 pounds and the size of a small mellon.. They dont flower until around Dec... Jan.. Takes around a month but you notice the shoot on the bulb growing really fast( about an inch or two inches a day) then you get this massive flower that looks like the pic above and smells like a dead cow.. Its a smell that will easily fill a room ... or even a small house..

Anyway I hope I didnt put the kart before the horse when I put these up for trade... but they wont be ready until fall .. Octoberish..

Chris

please been trying to get these for 2 yrs. would appreciate to be on your list???