Aroids (the family Araceae)

[Maggi Young]

Jim Waddick posted about this article and pictures by Wilbert Hettersheid ( reposted from an Aroid email group) on the PBS list..... I just  had to  repost it again here... this is one furry amorphphallus...

 Amorphophallus paperBot533-14.pdf (288.04 kB - downloaded 145 times.)


 P.S. Jim called it a 'Hairy Scary' - I think we can see what he meant..... kind of a cute pink though.....

[ThomasB]

A beauty, quite interesting with it's fluffy spadix! 

[K-D Keller]

Two new pictures for a sleeping Topic, dormancy has past. 

[K-D Keller]

Sauromatum (Typhonium) venosum and a second tuber of Amorphophallus konjac are in flower now.

[Janis Ruksans]

Very busy now in garden an long time not checjked forum but few Aroids are blooming now
Eminium koenianum from Turkey
Arum conophalloides caudatum - collected in Turkey, too

[Tony Willis]

three arums in flower now

Arum dioscoridis
Arum pictum
Arum balansanum

[Alessandro.marinello]

Arisaema sp.

[Oron Peri]

Looks like A. lichiangensis

[Alessandro.marinello]

Oron thanks for identification

[jshields]

Zantedeschia pentlandii came originally from Charles Craib in South Africa.  These do not set seeds for me, so I may have all one clone.  They do seem to offset readily.



Jim

[TheOnionMan]

Need to get caught up on this topic, some stunning stuff being shown.

This is Pinellia cordata 'Yamazakii', a tiny well-behaved form, the cutest little thing. It emerges so late (little over a week ago) I always think I've lost it; for me it stays as a small clump, with cute hooded blooms and skywards spadices. The best part, the flowers give of a strong aroma like sweet juicy-fruit bubblegum!

[jshields]

My Zantedeschia jucunda is not doing well, even though grown under the same conditions as my Z. pentlandii (which is doing very well).  That is, bone dry over winter, temps 45-55 F/ +7 to 13 C, outdoors with regular watering in summer.  Any suggestions, anyone?
Jim

[greenspan]

could somebody have a look at my Arum italicum (posting #54) with spots on the spatha and dark blotches on the leaves. i posted in the wrong forum .

has anybody seen such form in wild. could it be a hybrid or a local variety in the wild?

[Oron Peri]

It is a hybrid,
Arum maculatum x italicum, it is known for quite some time in cultivation.

[greenspan]

thx oron...does a cultivar name exist for this hybrid? how sure is the hybrid status? i ask, because the flowering time between A. maculatum + A. italicum is so different. A. maculatum is fruiting now, while A. italicum starts flowering. so a natural hybridisation should be excluded.