AMORPHOPHALLUS EXCENTRICUS × AMORPHOPHALLUS KRAUSEI

Hybrid

PARENTAGE:

Amorphophallus excentricus × Amorphophallus krausei

HYBRIDIZER:

Steve Jackson

DESCRIPTION:

Steve Jackson's plant flowered for the first time in December 2015, which he reported as the first flowering of this hybrid, at least in Australia; he judged that it had probably taken more after Amorphophallus krausei.¹ It flowered again in November 2016, when he noted that the patterning on the petioles was turning out to be a highlight of the hybrid.²

NOTES:

1. Steve Jackson: Amorphophallus excentricus (ovule) × Amorphophallus krausei (pollen); reported 2014.²,⁴

2. Steve Jackson: Amorphophallus excentricus (ovule) × Amorphophallus krausei (pollen).³

3. Reported in the Amorphophallus Facebook group: Matt Coulter on its petiole patterns in February 2018.⁵

REFERENCES:

1. Steve Jackson, post in the Amorphophallus Facebook group, 13 December 2015

2. Steve Jackson, post in the Amorphophallus Facebook group, 14 November 2016

3. Steve Jackson, post in the Amorphophallus Facebook group, 12 December 2017

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

5. Matt Coulter, post in the Amorphophallus Facebook group, 16 February 2018

Photos by Alan Galloway

Photos by Steve Jackson

Photos by Matt Coulter

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