AMORPHOPHALLUS 'ALAN'S LEGACY'

PARENTAGE:

Amorphophallus konjac 'Shredded Umbrellas' × Amorphophallus albus

ORIGIN:

Selected and named by Juniper Level Botanic Garden from a cross made by Alan Galloway between the cut-leaf Amorphophallus konjac selection 'Shredded Umbrellas' and Amorphophallus albus; announced in a post dated August 20th, 2025.

HYBRIDIZER:

Alan Galloway

NOTES:

1. Juniper Level sells it as Amorphophallus x konbus 'Alan's Legacy'; the x-name is a nursery label.¹

2. The post does not say which species was the seed parent.¹

3. One of the named seedlings of Amorphophallus albus × Amorphophallus konjac.¹ Other named hybrids from the same two species: 'Mary Sizemore', 'Meister Eckardt', 'Green Genes', 'Glow Light'. See every recorded cross of these two parents.

4. Reported in the Amorphophallus Facebook group: Tony Avent showed the plant in July 2024 as the selection made from Alan Galloway's A. konjac 'Shredded Umbrellas' × A. albus cross.²

STORY:

STORY TITLE: A clone named for Alan Galloway

Among the Amorphophallus konjac selections the late Alan Galloway loved was a Dutch cut-leaf selection that Juniper Level acquired decades earlier and named 'Shredded Umbrellas'.¹ In the last years of his life he crossed it with Amorphophallus albus, and Juniper Level selected one clone from that cross and named it in his honor.¹

REFERENCES:

1. Juniper Level Botanic Garden: Cognac or Konjac - We'll take the Latter

2. Tony Avent, post in the Amorphophallus Facebook group, 13 July 2024

Photos by Tony Avent