AMORPHOPHALLUS 'BLUE NIGHTSPOT'

Hybrid

PARENTAGE:

Amorphophallus glaucophyllus × Amorphophallus lacourii

ORIGIN:

Bred by Cyrille Claudel in Germany from Amorphophallus glaucophyllus (female) and Amorphophallus lacourii (male), with the aim of combining the glaucous leaves of the one parent with the spotted leaves of the other; named by Claudel.

HYBRIDIZER:

Cyrille Claudel

DESCRIPTION:

The leaves are bluish and spotted with white dots.¹

NOTES:

1. Galloway's index gives the pollen parent as the 'Spotted leaf form' of Amorphophallus lacourii.³

2. Galloway's gallery shows it under accession AGA-2788-01, photographed from July 26th, 2018 to February 18th, 2019.⁴

3. One of the named seedlings of Amorphophallus glaucophyllus × Amorphophallus lacourii.¹ See every recorded cross of these two parents.

4. Reported in the Amorphophallus Facebook group: Bjørn Malkmus-Hussein introducing the selection in September 2014: bluish leaves from A. glaucophyllus, white spots from A. lacourii.⁵

REFERENCES:

1. International Aroid Society Aroid Cultivar Registry: Amorphophallus 'Blue Nightspot'

2. Cyrille Claudel, Amorphophallus Hybrids Network: glaucophyllus x lacourii (archived June 2017)

3. Alan Galloway Botanicals: Amorphophallus Hybrids

4. Alan Galloway Botanicals: Amorphophallus 'Blue Nightspot'

5. Bjørn Malkmus-Hussein, post in the Amorphophallus Facebook group, 20 September 2014

Photos by Alan Galloway

Photographs submitted to the IAS Aroid Cultivar Registry by the originator

Photos by Bjørn Malkmus-Hussein

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