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Amorphophallus kiusianus (voodoo-lily, acc nr 73797-H, HG-CSB), a volunteer from seed in the Naitonal Herb Garden, US National Arboretum.
This plant really has no place in the National Herb Garden and we'll probably remove it eventually, but in the meantime, it sure is cool.
A selfie Sunday with my 5 foot tall blooming Amorphophallus Rivieri (Voodoo Lily) The last one to bloom this year. Left this one in the cooler basement, since the last one stunk up my whole house. This is the first time in a couple of years that I got a “stinky” bloom
In my garden.
Mrs G. made me buy this Voodoo Lily about 15 years ago. It’s supposedly semi hardy so I didn’t expect it to survive our winters. For some reason it keeps going year after year stinking out our front garden for 2 or 3 days in June.
Wouldn’t you know it - we’ve got visitors coming for the day tomorrow.
In my garden.
My “fragrant” Voodoo Lily always manages to flower when its least appropriate. At the moment my wife has a temporary shop set up at the back of the house selling her work during Bucks Art Week.
The fragrance of carrion is staggering - still, the flies like it.
This weird looking flower has just opened, it is over 60cm tall. It has a pretty rank smell....the plant is native to the eastern Mediterranean. I bought a bulb some months ago.
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On a slope overlooking Pedi Bay, Symi, Greece. Commonly known by many names, such as voodoo lily, stink lily, dragon arum, and in Greece, drakondia. Its fetid odor and lurid coloration lure its main pollinators, various flies.
Also called Voodoo Lily, Dragon Arum, Dracunculus vulgaris (or Arum dracunculus), Ragons, Snake Lily, Black Arum, Black Dragon, Dragonwort & Stink Lily. Whew!
They don't bloom every year - the soaking we have had so far this year has brought out more than usual.
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Beacon Hill Park, Victoria, BC
This very interesting flower in Beacon Hill Park caught my attention as I have never before seen one like it. It has taken me a good day of searching to find the correct name for it as it is not labeled at the park.
It is a very large flower, easily 18" + tall.
It is a member of the Arum family. Other common names it is called are ; Dragon Plant, Voodoo Lily, Snake Lily, Stink Lily and Black Dragon. Like many other members of this family, it lures insects in to pollinate its flowers by emitting a scent of rotting meat. ( I did not smell this on the day I took this photo )
In my garden.
Down the throat of my Voodoo Lily. Flies go down this shoot and pollinate the beast whilst struggling to get out again. (It doesn't consume them - they can get out again, its just a bit of a struggle).
Thankfully 2 of my Voodoo Lily bulbs (Amorphophallus Rivieri) will flower soon. Of course with that will bring an odor that I quite cannot say what it smells like :-) The mother bulb (The one I started with) is on the right - about 7 years old. All the rest are relatives from the Mommy :-)
Commonly called by various names - Dragon Arum, Voodoo Lily, Ragons, Snake Lily, Black Arum, and Black Dragon. You generally smell this plant before you see it. It has an unpleasant odour not unlike rotting meat.
Whipcord Cobra Lily rhizome. Made this with watercolour and coloured pencil. Here's what it looks like when it gets (much) bigger: www.aroid.org/genera/speciespage.php?genus=arisaema&s...
This is a posed family photo of some of the plants that presently reside in my driveway in various positions of sunlight, ranging from heavy shade to full sun. They've all now been placed back into their particular photonic niches.
Note added on September 19,2008 - some of these are Madagascan Spiny Forest plants - Alluaudia comosa, Operculicarya pachypus, and Xerosicyos pubescens. I'll post closer photos of the latter two soon.
Dracunculus vulgaris Schott
Arum dracunculus L.
Araceae
Dragonea, Dragonzio, Erba Serpentona, Erba Serpentaria
Forma Biologica: G rhiz - Geofite rizomatose. Piante con un particolare fusto sotterraneo, detto rizoma, che ogni anno emette radici e fusti avventizi.
Descrizione: pianta erbacea perenne che raggiunge oltre il metro di altezza, provvista di un rizoma tuberiforme e di un fusto eretto, glabro, grosso e picchiettato di macchie rosse-brune che ricordano la pelle di un serpente ( onde il nome serpentaria).
Le foglie, che si ergono dal bulbo,si avvolgono al fusto con guaine chiazzate, svilluppano un lungo picciolo di 20-30 cm e terminano con lamine fogliari verdi macchiate di bianco, lunghe fino a 35 cm palmato-divise in 9-15 segmenti oblunghi lanceolati, con margini ondulati ed acuti all'apice, inseriti su di un lembo perpendicolare al picciolo o ± arcuati .
L'infiorescenza a spiga, nominata spadice, è avvolta da una ampia brattea ondulata, detta spata, prevalentemente purpurea all'interno, verde esternamente, lunga ca 40 cm.,che convoca alla base con un tubo cilindrico. Lo spadice lungo 20-60 cm porta alla base numerosi piccoli fiori femminili e maschili separati da alcuni sterili e si prolunga all'esterno con una lunga appendice violacea-scura, a forma di clava.
I frutti sono bacche di un color rosso-arancio.
Tipo corologico: Steno-Medit. - Specie con areale limitato alle coste mediterranee, (area dell'Olivo).
Antesi: aprile- maggio
Distribuzione in Italia: Lombardia, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia esotica naturalizzata, Liguria, E.-Romagna, Toscana, Marche, Lazio,Molise, Campania,Calabria, Puglia, Sicilia e Sardegna. Dubbia la presenza in Piemonte ed Umbria. Non più ritrovata in Abruzzo.
Habitat: Sottoboschi, cespuglieti, terreni sassosi ma freschi, radure fino ad 800 m.
Tassonomia filogenetica
Magnoliophyta
Monocotiledoni
Ordine Alismatales
Famiglia APW Araceae
Tribù Dracunculeae
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Etimologia: Il nome del genere dracunculus, deriva dal latino dracontium = serpente, mentre il nome specifico dal latino vulgaris = comune = piccolo drago comune.
Proprietà ed utilizzi: Specie tossica
Pianta velenosa.
Pianta tossico-velenosa, contiene come tutte le piante appartenenti alla famiglia delle Araceae dei principi tossici molto elevati, sopratutto nelle piante fresche.L'insieme di queste sostanze possono provocare al contatto esterno dermatiti o irritazioni varie. In caso di ingestione, specie se si tratta dei frutti,possono provocare, nausea, vomito, diarrea con emorragie, crampi muscolari, che in casi gravi possono portare alla paralisi.
Curiosità: A completare la stranezza e la singolarità di questa pianta è il forte fetore che essa emana quando è in fiore, che ricorda quello della carne in putrefazione. Effetto che richiama mosche e moscerini che provvedono poi all'impollinazione.
Infatti questa interessante caratteristica dell'impollinazione accumuna tutte le specie della famiglia delle araceae. Gli insetti pronubi sono attirati dall'intensa secrezione zuccherina di cui sono avidi e dal caldo dell'ambiente prodotto dalla spata per reazioni chimiche. Il calore permette la vaporizzazione di queste sostanze e gli insetti attirati, penetrano nella base della spata e rimangono imprigionati da 2 corone di peli rivolti verso il basso. (la temperatura interna della pianta durante l'impollinazione sale tra i 48 ai 51°C.) essi cercando di uscire si imbrattono di polline ,trasportandolo sui fiori femminili, portando a termine il compito che la natura gli affidato. Ad impollinazione avvenuta, l'infiorescenza si affloscia, i peli interni appassiscono permettendo così l'uscita degli insetti.
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Dracunculus vulgaris is known by many names, Dragon Lily, Voodoo Lily, Viagra Lily and the "tell it like it is" name of Stink Lily.
The "Stink" that eminates from the flower on the day it opens smells somewhat like rotting meat and attracts flies as the chief pollinator, an attribute that needs consideration when you decide where to plant this flower. Luckily the odor dissipates after the first day, allowing you to enjoy the exotic beauty of this unusual plant!
The 10-12 inch flowers range in color from deep marroon to nearly black and last for 7-10 days. The ornate green foliage appears in March but the flowers wait until early June to make their appearance.
Dragon Lilies are native to the eastern Mediterranean region. They are hardy in USDA zones 5-8, provided they are adequately mulched in the winter.
Dragon Lilies are tough and easy to care for. They can be grown in full sun to partial shade. Provide good drainage and water well during the growing season. When the plant begins to die back after blooming, you should decrease watering.
The plants benefit from a top dressing of compost and bone meal in early Spring.
Dragon Lilies can be propagated from seed or offset bulbs.
Among the fruit trees, the grape vines, the hemlocks, and the succulents is this monstrosity, the "Dracunculus Vulgaris." Best to sit upwind from it while taking in the Summer sun.
My neighbor's Voodoo Lily opened - and wow does it stink!! Like a dead animal. Which explains all of the flies. Flies are pollinators. Who knew?
From the Swallowtail Garden Seeds collection of botanical photographs and illustrations. We hope you will enjoy these images as much as we do.
Another spring and another blooming of my smelly Voodoo Lily bulbs - (Amorphophallus Rivieri)
Other names for these plants..."Sacred Lily of India" "Leopard Palm" and "Devil's Tongue" Yes, they bloom - inflorescence - without soil, after they are about 3 or 4 years old.
The mother plant is on the stool, and is about 10 years old. After blooming, they are planted and produce an interesting plant for summer - as seen below - Mother in 2009. Plus a snap of the plant in full bloom... at it's smelliest!
Here's Big Momma blooming this spring and here's Big Momma the day I brought her home.
Last year she was 870 grams, this year over a kilo.
Amorphophallus (from Ancient Greek amorphos, "without form, misshapen" + phallos, "penis") is a large genus of some 200 tropical and subtropical tuberous herbaceous plants from the Arum family (Araceae), native to Asia, Africa, Australia, and various oceanic islands.
The oldest systematic record of the plants was in 1692, when Van Rheede tot Drakenstein published descriptions of two plants. The name "Amorphophallus" was first mentioned in 1834 by the Dutch botanist Blume. Between 1876 and 1911, Engler merged a number of other genera into Amorphophallus, with a final monograph published in 1911.
Konjac has been eaten in Japan for 1500 years. During the Edo Period, beginning in the early 17th century, the Japanese imported Konnyaku/Shirataki from China. In 1846, the book "Konnyaku Hyakusen" ("100 Recipes For Konnyaku") was published and demonstrates its popularity in Japan at that time.
Konjac is grown in China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and southeast Asia for its large starchy corms, used to create a flour and jelly of the same name. It is used as a vegan substitute for gelatin, in sweets and jellies, and as a vegan seafood substitute.
The subterranean tuber grows a single leaf, which can be several metres across in larger species, on a snakeskin-patterned trunk-like petiole. This leaf has a vertical leaf stalk and a horizontal blade consisting of a number of small leaflets. The leaf lasts one growing season. Once the plant is mature (at about four years), it develops a long peduncle and an short-lived inflorescence consisting of an elongate or ovate spathe enveloping the spadix, or flower spike.
The plants are monoecious. The spadix has tiny flowers: female flowers, no more than a pistil, at the bottom, then male flowers, actually a group of stamens, and then a blank sterile area. This last part, called the "appendix," consists of sterile flowers, called staminodes, and can be especially large. There is no corolla.
Once the spathe opens, pollination must happen the same day. The deep-purple, knobbly, pearly inflorescence looks and stinks like decaying flesh to attract insects. Amorphophallus species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera (butterfly and moth) species including Palpifer sexnotatus and Palpifer sordida. The pollinated flowers then develop a globose berry.
Forums advise A. konjac owners whose plants are due to bloom to post warning notices about the smell in the neighbourhood; apartment doors have been kicked in when police are called by neighbours concerned about the possible corpse inside... It's good if you have somewhere else you can store it a few weeks until the smell goes away, though it's not that bad when the plant is still young (ours have so far just gone into the spare room with the door closed for a while).
Your dog would love you if you got one of these: they drink that stench in.
They're very easy to care for: in May or June, plant fairly deep to accommodate the roots that grow off the top of the tuber and give lots of water and sunshine. The plant will go into dormancy itself around September or October, turning yellow and wilting. Once it has completely died off and parted from the tuber, dig the tuber up, dry it off, and store it in a cool dry place like a cellar until the next spring. This also lets you have the pleasure of weighing it every year to watch the almost magical growth.
Here is a German page on its care.
Here's Big Momma blooming this spring and here's Big Momma the day I brought her home.
Last year she was 870 grams, this year over a kilo.
Amorphophallus (from Ancient Greek amorphos, "without form, misshapen" + phallos, "penis") is a large genus of some 200 tropical and subtropical tuberous herbaceous plants from the Arum family (Araceae), native to Asia, Africa, Australia, and various oceanic islands.
The oldest systematic record of the plants was in 1692, when Van Rheede tot Drakenstein published descriptions of two plants. The name "Amorphophallus" was first mentioned in 1834 by the Dutch botanist Blume. Between 1876 and 1911, Engler merged a number of other genera into Amorphophallus, with a final monograph published in 1911.
Konjac has been eaten in Japan for 1500 years. During the Edo Period, beginning in the early 17th century, the Japanese imported Konnyaku/Shirataki from China. In 1846, the book "Konnyaku Hyakusen" ("100 Recipes For Konnyaku") was published and demonstrates its popularity in Japan at that time.
Konjac is grown in China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and southeast Asia for its large starchy corms, used to create a flour and jelly of the same name. It is used as a vegan substitute for gelatin, in sweets and jellies, and as a vegan seafood substitute.
The subterranean tuber grows a single leaf, which can be several metres across in larger species, on a snakeskin-patterned trunk-like petiole. This leaf has a vertical leaf stalk and a horizontal blade consisting of a number of small leaflets. The leaf lasts one growing season. Once the plant is mature (at about four years), it develops a long peduncle and an short-lived inflorescence consisting of an elongate or ovate spathe enveloping the spadix, or flower spike.
The plants are monoecious. The spadix has tiny flowers: female flowers, no more than a pistil, at the bottom, then male flowers, actually a group of stamens, and then a blank sterile area. This last part, called the "appendix," consists of sterile flowers, called staminodes, and can be especially large. There is no corolla.
Once the spathe opens, pollination must happen the same day. The deep-purple, knobbly, pearly inflorescence looks and stinks like decaying flesh to attract insects. Amorphophallus species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera (butterfly and moth) species including Palpifer sexnotatus and Palpifer sordida. The pollinated flowers then develop a globose berry.
Forums advise A. konjac owners whose plants are due to bloom to post warning notices about the smell in the neighbourhood; apartment doors have been kicked in when police are called by neighbours concerned about the possible corpse inside... It's good if you have somewhere else you can store it a few weeks until the smell goes away, though it's not that bad when the plant is still young (ours have so far just gone into the spare room with the door closed for a while).
Your dog would love you if you got one of these: they drink that stench in.
They're very easy to care for: in May or June, plant fairly deep to accommodate the roots that grow off the top of the tuber and give lots of water and sunshine. The plant will go into dormancy itself around September or October, turning yellow and wilting. Once it has completely died off and parted from the tuber, dig the tuber up, dry it off, and store it in a cool dry place like a cellar until the next spring. This also lets you have the pleasure of weighing it every year to watch the almost magical growth.
Here is a German page on its care.
The voodoo lily (Dracunculus vulgaris) is not really a lily but is an aroid, a diverse assemblage of plants many of which have interesting forms and life histories. The related genus Amorphophallus includes a species that produces the largest known flower structure (A. titanium).
Konnyaku is made from konjac root and has almost no calories but it does have fibers, so it gives you a full stomach. Ideal for loosing weight. It doesn't taste like much though and it comes is horribly stinky water that smells like allstar sneakers.
Meer lezen over konnyaku? Surf naar: www.aziatische-ingredienten.nl.
Read more about: konnyaku.
Konnyaku is made from konjac root and has almost no calories but it does have fibers, so it gives you a full stomach. Ideal for loosing weight. It doesn't taste like much though and it comes is horribly stinky water that smells like allstar sneakers.
Meer lezen over konnyaku? Surf naar: www.aziatische-ingredienten.nl.
Read more about: konnyaku.
Sorpresa pasquale!
Easter day present.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhonium_venosum
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Binomial name
Typhonium venosum
(Dryand. ex Aiton) Hett. & P.C.Boyce
Synonyms
Arum venosum Dryand. ex Aiton
Sauromatum guttatum (Wall.) Schott
Sauromatum venosum (Dryand. ex Aiton) Kunth
Hetterscheid, W. & P. C. Boyce. 2000. a reclassification of Sauromatum Schott and new species of Typhonium Schott (Araceae). Aroideana 23: 48–55
My Voodoo Lilies ( Amorphophallus konjac ) are finally in full bloom, or at least 2 of them. Yes, they bloom right from the bulb around this time. The 2 pots are only providing supported for the bulbs, The Mommy of all of these is right in the center - on the floor..... ready to bloom soon. After they finish blooming, the stalk then dies back and then can be planted in the ground or large planter pot. A mature plant in summer will grow about 4 - 5 feet tall, looking like a rain tree ....wide and flat on top. Oh... and it takes about 4 years for the bulbs to mature enough to bloom, so the mother is about 8 - 9 years old. And when they bloom .... OH My Golly, they are real stinkers!
Here's Big Momma blooming this spring and here's Big Momma the day I brought her home.
Last year she was 870 grams, this year over a kilo.
Amorphophallus (from Ancient Greek amorphos, "without form, misshapen" + phallos, "penis") is a large genus of some 200 tropical and subtropical tuberous herbaceous plants from the Arum family (Araceae), native to Asia, Africa, Australia, and various oceanic islands.
The oldest systematic record of the plants was in 1692, when Van Rheede tot Drakenstein published descriptions of two plants. The name "Amorphophallus" was first mentioned in 1834 by the Dutch botanist Blume. Between 1876 and 1911, Engler merged a number of other genera into Amorphophallus, with a final monograph published in 1911.
Konjac has been eaten in Japan for 1500 years. During the Edo Period, beginning in the early 17th century, the Japanese imported Konnyaku/Shirataki from China. In 1846, the book "Konnyaku Hyakusen" ("100 Recipes For Konnyaku") was published and demonstrates its popularity in Japan at that time.
Konjac is grown in China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and southeast Asia for its large starchy corms, used to create a flour and jelly of the same name. It is used as a vegan substitute for gelatin, in sweets and jellies, and as a vegan seafood substitute.
The subterranean tuber grows a single leaf, which can be several metres across in larger species, on a snakeskin-patterned trunk-like petiole. This leaf has a vertical leaf stalk and a horizontal blade consisting of a number of small leaflets. The leaf lasts one growing season. Once the plant is mature (at about four years), it develops a long peduncle and an short-lived inflorescence consisting of an elongate or ovate spathe enveloping the spadix, or flower spike.
The plants are monoecious. The spadix has tiny flowers: female flowers, no more than a pistil, at the bottom, then male flowers, actually a group of stamens, and then a blank sterile area. This last part, called the "appendix," consists of sterile flowers, called staminodes, and can be especially large. There is no corolla.
Once the spathe opens, pollination must happen the same day. The deep-purple, knobbly, pearly inflorescence looks and stinks like decaying flesh to attract insects. Amorphophallus species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera (butterfly and moth) species including Palpifer sexnotatus and Palpifer sordida. The pollinated flowers then develop a globose berry.
Forums advise A. konjac owners whose plants are due to bloom to post warning notices about the smell in the neighbourhood; apartment doors have been kicked in when police are called by neighbours concerned about the possible corpse inside... It's good if you have somewhere else you can store it a few weeks until the smell goes away, though it's not that bad when the plant is still young (ours have so far just gone into the spare room with the door closed for a while).
Your dog would love you if you got one of these: they drink that stench in.
They're very easy to care for: in May or June, plant fairly deep to accommodate the roots that grow off the top of the tuber and give lots of water and sunshine. The plant will go into dormancy itself around September or October, turning yellow and wilting. Once it has completely died off and parted from the tuber, dig the tuber up, dry it off, and store it in a cool dry place like a cellar until the next spring. This also lets you have the pleasure of weighing it every year to watch the almost magical growth.
Here is a German page on its care.
Here's Big Momma blooming this spring and here's Big Momma the day I brought her home.
Last year she was 870 grams, this year over a kilo.
Amorphophallus (from Ancient Greek amorphos, "without form, misshapen" + phallos, "penis") is a large genus of some 200 tropical and subtropical tuberous herbaceous plants from the Arum family (Araceae), native to Asia, Africa, Australia, and various oceanic islands.
The oldest systematic record of the plants was in 1692, when Van Rheede tot Drakenstein published descriptions of two plants. The name "Amorphophallus" was first mentioned in 1834 by the Dutch botanist Blume. Between 1876 and 1911, Engler merged a number of other genera into Amorphophallus, with a final monograph published in 1911.
Konjac has been eaten in Japan for 1500 years. During the Edo Period, beginning in the early 17th century, the Japanese imported Konnyaku/Shirataki from China. In 1846, the book "Konnyaku Hyakusen" ("100 Recipes For Konnyaku") was published and demonstrates its popularity in Japan at that time.
Konjac is grown in China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and southeast Asia for its large starchy corms, used to create a flour and jelly of the same name. It is used as a vegan substitute for gelatin, in sweets and jellies, and as a vegan seafood substitute.
The subterranean tuber grows a single leaf, which can be several metres across in larger species, on a snakeskin-patterned trunk-like petiole. This leaf has a vertical leaf stalk and a horizontal blade consisting of a number of small leaflets. The leaf lasts one growing season. Once the plant is mature (at about four years), it develops a long peduncle and an short-lived inflorescence consisting of an elongate or ovate spathe enveloping the spadix, or flower spike.
The plants are monoecious. The spadix has tiny flowers: female flowers, no more than a pistil, at the bottom, then male flowers, actually a group of stamens, and then a blank sterile area. This last part, called the "appendix," consists of sterile flowers, called staminodes, and can be especially large. There is no corolla.
Once the spathe opens, pollination must happen the same day. The deep-purple, knobbly, pearly inflorescence looks and stinks like decaying flesh to attract insects. Amorphophallus species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera (butterfly and moth) species including Palpifer sexnotatus and Palpifer sordida. The pollinated flowers then develop a globose berry.
Forums advise A. konjac owners whose plants are due to bloom to post warning notices about the smell in the neighbourhood; apartment doors have been kicked in when police are called by neighbours concerned about the possible corpse inside... It's good if you have somewhere else you can store it a few weeks until the smell goes away, though it's not that bad when the plant is still young (ours have so far just gone into the spare room with the door closed for a while).
Your dog would love you if you got one of these: they drink that stench in.
They're very easy to care for: in May or June, plant fairly deep to accommodate the roots that grow off the top of the tuber and give lots of water and sunshine. The plant will go into dormancy itself around September or October, turning yellow and wilting. Once it has completely died off and parted from the tuber, dig the tuber up, dry it off, and store it in a cool dry place like a cellar until the next spring. This also lets you have the pleasure of weighing it every year to watch the almost magical growth.
Here is a German page on its care.