AMORPHOPHALLUS 'DIGEST'

PARENTAGE:

Amorphophallus variabilis 'Sluka's Dark Giant' × Amorphophallus titanum

ORIGIN:

Cross made in 2017 in Indonesia by Indra Wirianto, who applied stored pollen of wild-collected Amorphophallus titanum from the Riau forest to a blooming Amorphophallus variabilis 'Sluka's Dark Giant' belonging to a hobby grower; named by Micha Gracianna Devi.

HYBRIDIZER:

Indra Wirianto

DESCRIPTION:

Almost the whole plant is maroon, except for green petioles in the vegetative stage and the yellow female and male zones of the inflorescence.¹ The solitary leaf has a green blade about 100 cm across, made up of acuminate leaflets roughly 20 cm long and 8 cm wide, on a petiole 1.2 m long and 6 cm thick at the base, and the color pattern is white spots on a maroon background.¹ The peduncle is 35-100 cm long and 6 cm thick, the spathe 44 cm long, and the spadix 85 cm long with a 7 cm pistillate zone and a 7 cm staminate zone.¹ The growth habit is similar to that of 'John Tan'.¹

NOTES:

1. The pollination produced 49 healthy and 53 unhealthy seeds, and the fruits were harvested three months after pollination.¹

2. The registry record is still under review, and the registrant reports that a characterization of the cultivar is under review at Aroideana.¹

3. One of the named seedlings of Amorphophallus variabilis × Amorphophallus titanum.² Other named hybrids from the same two species: 'John Tan'. See every recorded cross of these two parents.

STORY:

STORY TITLE: A name built from the initials DGS

The cultivar is a cross of Amorphophallus variabilis 'Sluka's Dark Giant' (DGS) with Amorphophallus titanum, and the registrant formed the name DiGeSt from the initials DGS to keep it easy to say.¹

REFERENCES:

1. International Aroid Society Aroid Cultivar Registry (record under review), submitted October 25th, 2022

2. IAS Aroid Cultivar Registry, record ff0fa399 (draft)

Photographs submitted to the IAS Aroid Cultivar Registry by the originator