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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.
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.
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.
Sorpresa pasquale!
Easter day present.
it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauromatum_venosum
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
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 now and here's Big Momma the day I brought her home.
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.