Dracunculus vulgaris!
Mine had one baby last year, this year it has three!
Who has Dracs growing?
This was taken nearly a week ago, it's been cold but it has moved a little.
The bubble in the pic is hung over where glass panes are missing!
I do!
Yes they do smell like raw sewerage for one day and the bloom time is relatively short...but I love them.
I planted 1 bulb 3 years ago and now if has 6 shoots. No babies/seedlings though.
I am in Zone 6a and it is happy being situated outside near the brick exterior.
:-)
ROX
Wow rox, 6 shoots! It must have been a huge bulb, mine has flowered the last two years but took some time to flower. I think I had it for at least 3 years before flowering, I had 3 in a large pot but left it outside, it was a dreadful cold winter and the leaves took a lot of frost but I lost two. They probably would have been better in the ground as they wouldn't have frozen, but may have starved from the cold!
I daren't put mine in the ground until I have plenty of back up! Your zone is colder, but I'm guessing your day temps are much higher than ours. The prolonged cold can be fatal but I'm nearly ready to try it in the ground!
Mine are in the ground and are coming up again this season 7 years strong.
Pic of the bloom a few years ago.
I bet you're having heat there too Brian!
7 years strong is good! I notice a difference in spathe shape and spadix colour. Mine has a glossy black spadix, and seems to have a broader spathe. I wonder if this is due to regional differences of origin.
Some have a short spadix too, they must vary in their natural habitats
http://www.paghat.com/voodoolily.html
I thought I was going to get seeds on mine last year but they didn't fill, there was a pair of strange fly things at the bottom of the well, the next morning they had gone and another pair of strange things appeared! Makes you wonder where they come from.
I guess I need two different ones for cross pollination, I have 7 seedlings growing from a trade (thaniks Vi!) but they will be a long time before flowering. Anyone know how long they can take from seed?
This message was edited Apr 1, 2007 1:21 PM
Different forms for sure,
Last year it was much later, it was cold until mid April. Although we have had some cold spells this winter, even recently, it's about 3 weeks ahead. In general this has been one of the warmest winters we have had!
This looks about the same stage last year on 16th April, with it's one baby.
This message was edited Apr 1, 2007 1:35 PM
I do!
they are still pretty tiny, but manage to put out a pungent lovely flower. Should be doing their thing soon! I have several different amorphophallus bulbs on the way too, can't wait! *boing*
pics are from '05, but they both flowered pretty nicely in '06 summer too, just nothing that motivated me to grab the camera, they had slug trails on them and a couple marks in the spathe that detracted from the photgraphy. In these pics, i was tryingto get the entire flower in the view, so not all of them have very good details.
here are links to the pics:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/20316782/?qo=6&q=by%3Adarkbloodwyvern+in%3Aphotography%2Fnature%2Fflora&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/20316682/?qo=7&q=by%3Adarkbloodwyvern+in%3Aphotography%2Fnature%2Fflora&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/20316589/?qo=8&q=by%3Adarkbloodwyvern+in%3Aphotography%2Fnature%2Fflora&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/20316503/?qo=9&q=by%3Adarkbloodwyvern+in%3Aphotography%2Fnature%2Fflora&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps
:D i love them so much!!!
Thanks for the pic show Aazhie! They don't look that tiny, nice setting with the ferns!
I daren't take mine out the greenhouse for a decent shot, I would end up breaking the stem. It seems to like it in there, it gets some afternoon shade plus plenty of through draught!
wallaby~
I put my Dracs in the ground last fall.
Here's a pic of them March 10 this year.
Here they are, moments ago.
They came through our recent 23F nights just fine with no protection at all.
Tall.
You have a lot of them! They are looking good, it looks like the one at the back left has a baby plant too!
All that heat you get helps them, but mine do get more warmth in the greenhouse. They can take some frost, but when it's prolonged it can do damage.
This is mine 4 days ago, the stem is thicker than it was last year, I love to see it get bigger every year!
Wallaby1~
I was taking a chance on them. They started growing too early in the pots indoors last year. One problem was getting them acclimatized to our spring heat. I hope the frequent wilting that I saw last year won't happen, but I don't know.
I threw caution to the wind to see how they'd do "au naturel" and so far they seem to have done well.
Yours look wonderful!
R.
I would love to take a chance on mine but I dare not do it yet! A greenhouse does help I must admit, but if I had a lot of them space is a major concern!
I wouldn't think they will wilt in the ground, growing in pots inside can make plants a little too drawn up and tender.
It looks like you have some darker stems, did any of them flower last year?
I love those pics of a hand cut off from the body, it leaves me with a strange feeling of wanting to see the whole picture!
SO here's a cut off hand, with the plant of course! VERY TALL! (come on someone post a taller one!)
Wow, what a healthy plant! How old is it? That stem is absolutely gorgeous!!!!
I started with five corms in the fall of 2005. I grew them in pots. Through various mishaps (like having the wind break the stem right off the bulb and rot) I ended up with 2 or 3, I forget which. Well, that wasn't enough, so I got five more. I have 7 plants now, so either I started with 2 and 5 or lost one somewhere.
Anywho, the older ones from last year have more of the white markings on the leaves than the smaller ones, which have very few if any. Is the striping related to age or perhaps being seed grown, to the individual?
As far as the different colors (good eye!) I don't know enough about them to say why that is and perhaps it's a variable as with the stripes on the leaves.
Oh yes, your question ;-) . I think 4 of the corms attempted to bloom, but that was where the mishaps had their way and only one developed to the point of actually opening, at which point the wind promptly broke it off! I think that's why I decided to put them in the ground.......
I'd prolly better go out and stake them............
R.
This message was edited Apr 13, 2007 7:14 PM
I'm not certain to a year how old it is, I got 3 from de Jager who don't seem to have a catalogue now, but I hadn't bought from them for a while, I found them on a site listed as growers. I think it was the winter of 2001 when the others froze although they had grown in spring and it was very cold, so probably got them in autumn 2000.
This survivor wasn't huge, it flowered first in 05 and again last year. Patience pays!
The one JamesCo had last year had a very dark stem and more white on the leaves, they must vary from their original locations as many plants do.
I usually stick a cane in for the stem to lean on even in the greenhouse, it looks strong enough this year but I may be wrong!