Hi i got this first one as a voodoo lilly but not sure what kind.
Can anyone help?
Who are we? Can anyone help?
Also this one and its leaf below...
Mike
The leaf
Plus this cheeky colocasia?
Top one is Dracunculas vulgaris the next two are a arisaema not sure which species and the last looks to be Colocasia esculenta possibly the more common form sold at walmarts and other stores.
Nice Mike
LOVE that bloom!
Thinks it was Growing by aPower Plant
Hey thanks for that.
The arisemia won't be a rare one as i got it in a packet from the garden centre but can't for the life of me remember which it was.
The colocasia wasn't a rare one either as it was bouht in the same fashion but its in its second year outside in the UK.
Paul do you dare me to try growing the colocasia i sent you out side over winter? Could be hardy!!! yeah right.
I thought the flower on voodoo lilly was supposed to smell.... i kept sticking my nose in it for a whole week.... nothing ! Gutted...planted it next to the patio to annoy the wife too!
Mike
Mine Was Out Side All last Winter Paul
I was scanning through some photos you may want to look up Arisaema speciosum I believe that may be the species you have their.
Dear Mike,
What colour flower did your Dracunculus have? There are two species - D. vulgaris, which has a deep purple/maroon flower which does smell pretty foul - just not as badly as the Amorphophallus species do! - and D. canariensis which I have never seen, but which is supposed to have a yellow flower. This latter species is one I seriously covet by the way, but it seems to be truly rare, as I have never seen anyone one the forum mention it.
The leaves on your plant seem paler than they should be to my way of thinking and this may be due to excessive sunlight. I have discovered that my plants react badly to large amounts of sunshine - the leaves stay small and often curl up at the edges, and the plants may not flower at all. I now grow them under the drip line of a large evergreen shrub (Melaleuca) in big 3.5 gallon/15 litre tubs. They seem to really like this location and are absolutely stunning looking this year.
I dig and replant my tubers every year because they are quite greedy feeders, with a habit of throwing off masses of little offsets, and they would get far too crowded if I left them in the pots for more than one season. In addition our summers are just too hot and I have found that tubers left in the garden beds tend to shrivel up to nothing over their dormant period in our Australian summers. I took this photo today to show you my plants, bearing in mind that it is still very early in their growing season. - this pot holds my 5 largest tubers and I expect them to flower in mid to late spring. I have two more pots of the same size to hold all the juveniles as well - I replanted about 60 tubers in total this year. (eep!)
I once grew Dracuncluas canariense it is found on the canary islands and is a tall slender plant with slender looking flower. I believe I lost it years ago and had hoped to grow it again but it is rarely offered. The Dracunculas vulgaris is very divers and found on the island of Crete. I had a friend who went to Crete and collected a few tubers for me years ago. Their are several different forms. One is a all green leaf form much like shown above another having white markings on the leaf like this last photo. The most saught after form I have seen is the white flowering form. It is very hard to find and I have only seen two photos of it and know of only one person who is growing it in the US.
Here are some great photos of the white form from the aroid societys website.
http://www.aroid.org/genera/speciespage.php?genus=dracunculus&species=vulgaris
This flower has such a bad smell it brings flys and other bugs in from all over to help it pollinate. While taking photos I noticed this spider in the flower waiting for a few easy meals.
Hi Brian,
That is a great link - I love the way the first photo really shows the habit of the plant. One of these millennia (LOL) I am going to do something about making up some plain backgrounds to take plant photos with. So often you just get out in the garden and go click, but the plant doesn't show itself to the best advantage in the resulting shot. Thanks also for giving me another Dracunculus to covet, by the way! This genus may be small but I have really fallen in love with the spotted stems and divided leaves, which I find especially fascinating as they unfurl. Here is a close-up of a young leaf unpacking itself from the shoot.
Ciao, KK.
Yes this is a great group or aroids. I tried to grow Dracuncluas canariense in the hopes that I could cross breed it with vulgaris to make a hybrid that could possibly be hardy and possibly produce a pink flower or who knows.
I did however get a lot of tubers this year so maybe I will have some different forms. It should be interesting to see what grows from them.
the arisaema could possibly be this one?
http://www.plantdelights.com/Catalog/Current/Detail/03126.html
Hi all,
Thanks loads for the help.. it must be D. vulgaris as i never got a camera when it flowered but it was marroon... really good colour.. it is in full (uk) sun and on a free draining (again for the uk) soil so i think its not as healthy as it could be.
I'll move to over near the ariseamia which does get the best of the sun but the soil is humus rich and damper..i guess that explains the bigger leaf.
The Arisemia does look like fargesia but the cord is longer and the leaves are not quite as fat. If fargesia is a common one then that will be it... i didn't pay alot for these originally. I have some tincy tiny ones growing from seed... could be forever beofre i get a flower though. year 2 and nothing more than a leaf that comes up in spring and one in autumn!
Mike
...now that I keep reading about these things it might be this one, griffithi (which is pretty common):
http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/Arisaema/Arisaema_griffithii_07_gp2.jpg
but honestly it's hard to tell from the pictures I'm finding, there are several that look similar, but here's the pbs arisaema page, you might see one that looks more like it...there are several with the long tip of the spathe and the long spadix...sweet bloom
http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Arisaema
Bloomin heck... there are tons on that page that look exactly the same!
some really do look similar and there's not always notes about height, etc on that page but it is a good starting point...I don't know much about arisaemas so trying to learn more about them. I have heard they take awhile to bloom from seed
I have Elephant Ears growing in large pots as the soil here is hard clay. They are growing very well except they droop to the ground so I stake them. I would like to transplant some of them & wonder what is the best way to do this. I'm thinking I'll just lift the plant out of the pot & separate the bulbs. If this is the way to do it I would appreciate a big yes. Thanks much!!
Your Arisaema is A. costatum. I saw them in packets too at my local, there seemed to be a lot on offer here this year.
http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=arisaema%20costatum&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
Hiya,
Ah yes .. thats the fella.. nice to see them available everywhere as it will hopefully get people interested in other Arisaema if they find it as easy to grow as i found this one.
Mike