AMORPHOPHALLUS GIGAS × AMORPHOPHALLUS DECUS-SILVAE

PARENTAGE:

Amorphophallus gigas × Amorphophallus decus-silvae

HYBRIDIZER:

Steve Jackson

DESCRIPTION:

Seedlings showed very promising color and petiole pattern early on.¹ Because the parent species are closely related, the hybrids may be hard to tell from them in a collection, but Claudel expects heterosis to make them easier to grow and flower than the parents.¹ The cross was made in both directions by Steve Jackson of Australia.¹

HYBRIDS:

Amorphophallus tinekeae × (Amorphophallus gigas × Amorphophallus decus-silvae)

NOTES:

1. Steve Jackson: Amorphophallus decus-silvae (ovule) × Amorphophallus gigas (pollen); reported 2012.³,⁴

2. Steve Jackson: Amorphophallus gigas (ovule) × Amorphophallus decus-silvae (pollen); reported 2012.⁴

3. Reported in the Amorphophallus Facebook group: Craig Allen's Ca#400 coming into flower in May 2016;⁵ in flower for Steve Jackson in October 2022.⁶

OVULE PARENT:

Amorphophallus gigas

POLLEN PARENT:

Amorphophallus decus-silvae

REFERENCES:

1. Cyrille Claudel, Amorphophallus Hybrids Network: gigas x decus-silvae (archived June 2017)

2. Cyrille Claudel, Amorphophallus Hybrids Network: decus-silvae x gigas (archived June 2017)

3. Facebook post by Steve Jackson

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

5. Craig Allen, post in the Amorphophallus Facebook group, 24 May 2016

6. Steve Jackson, post in the Amorphophallus Facebook group, 17 October 2022

Photos by Steve Jackson, from the Amorphophallus Hybrids Network website

Photos by Craig Allen