AMORPHOPHALLUS ALBUS × AMORPHOPHALLUS KONJAC

Hybrid

PARENTAGE:

Amorphophallus albus × Amorphophallus konjac

HYBRIDIZER:

Cyrille Claudel; Alan Galloway; Andy Schenkel

DESCRIPTION:

Claudel crossed a large Amorphophallus konjac 'Nightstick' with uniformly black petioles and a small, pale green Amorphophallus albus.¹ The seedlings were showing interesting intermediate forms before any had flowered.¹

NOTES:

1. Named selections from this cross: 'Mary Sizemore', 'Meister Eckardt', 'Green Genes', 'Glow Light', 'Alan's Legacy'.

2. Cyrille Claudel: Amorphophallus albus (ovule) × Amorphophallus konjac 'Nightstick' (pollen); one seedling named Amorphophallus 'Mary Sizemore'.²

3. Cyrille Claudel: Amorphophallus albus (ovule) × Amorphophallus konjac 'Nightstick' (pollen); reported 2012.³

4. Alan Galloway: Amorphophallus albus (ovule) × Amorphophallus konjac (pollen), fresh pollen; reported 2014.⁴

5. Alan Galloway: Amorphophallus konjac (ovule) × Amorphophallus albus (pollen), frozen pollen; reported 2020.⁵

6. Cyrille Claudel: Amorphophallus albus (ovule) × Amorphophallus konjac 'Nightstick' (pollen); one seedling named Amorphophallus 'Meister Eckardt'.⁶

7. Cyrille Claudel: Amorphophallus konjac × Amorphophallus albus, direction of the cross not recorded; one seedling named Amorphophallus 'Green Genes'; reported 2022.⁷ Sold as Amorphophallus x konbus 'Green Genes'. Direction of the cross not confirmed: sources list the parents in different orders.

8. Cyrille Claudel: Amorphophallus konjac × Amorphophallus albus, direction of the cross not recorded; one seedling named Amorphophallus 'Glow Light'; reported 2020.⁸ Sold as Amorphophallus x konbus 'Glow Light'. Direction of the cross not confirmed: sources list the parents in different orders.

9. Alan Galloway: Amorphophallus konjac 'Shredded Umbrellas' (ovule) × Amorphophallus albus (pollen); one seedling named Amorphophallus 'Alan's Legacy'; reported 2025.⁹ Selected and named by JLBG; sold as Amorphophallus x konbus 'Alan's Legacy'.

10. Andy Schenkel: Amorphophallus albus (ovule) × Amorphophallus konjac (pollen); reported 2020.¹⁰

11. Reported in the Amorphophallus Facebook group: Andy Schenkel's seedlings coming into their second season in April 2022.¹¹

OVULE PARENT:

Amorphophallus albus

POLLEN PARENT:

Amorphophallus konjac

REFERENCES:

1. Cyrille Claudel, Amorphophallus Hybrids Network: albus x konjac 'Nightstick' (archived February 2013)

2. International Aroid Society Aroid Cultivar Registry: Amorphophallus 'Mary Sizemore'

3. Claudel, C. & A. Galloway. 2012. Hybridization of Amorphophallus – state of the art. Aroideana 35: 103–108.

4. Claudel, C. & R. Mangelsdorff. 2014. Hybridization of Amorphophallus — State of the Unions. Aroideana 37: 72–80

5. Claudel C. 2020. Chapter “Hybrids” pages 80–97. In: Konjac Glucomannan Production, Processing, and Functional Applications Edited by George Srzednicki, Chaleeda Borompichaichartkul. CRC Press

6. International Aroid Society Aroid Cultivar Registry: Amorphophallus 'Meister Eckardt'

7. Plant Delights Nursery: Amorphophallus konbus Green Genes

8. Plant Delights Nursery: Amorphophallus konbus Glow Light

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

10. Andy Schenkel, post in the Amorphophallus Facebook group, 9 May 2021

11. Andy Schenkel, post in the Amorphophallus Facebook group, 28 April 2022

Photographs submitted to the IAS Aroid Cultivar Registry by Cyrille Claudel

Photos by Plant Delights Nursery

Photos by Cyrille Claudel, from the Amorphophallus Hybrids Network website

Photos by Alan Galloway

Photographs submitted to the IAS Aroid Cultivar Registry by the originator

Photos by Plant Delights Nursery