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Old 03-27-2008, 05:23 PM   #16 (permalink)
Zac in NC
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Default Re: Anyone grow Amorphophallus?

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Zac, we grow bulbifer and titanum at the greenhouse. I like bulbifer because of the little bulblet that forms on the leaf. Do any others do that, or is it the only one? Strange how it does that when most don't.

Many others do this, in many different ways. A beccari,hottae,muellerii and others do this. Tony Avent saw this and thought, hmmm, I wonder how they'd do with leaf cuttings. Most species this works with, except konjac and albus and a few others. the rest form up to golf ball sized tubers from a leaflet cutting.

Amorphophallus symonianus is a really weird one. The bulbil forms inside the petiole, and then burts out. International Aroid Society

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