AMORPHOPHALLUS 'GLOW LIGHT'

PARENTAGE:

Amorphophallus konjac × Amorphophallus albus

ORIGIN:

Cross of Amorphophallus konjac and Amorphophallus albus made by Cyrille Claudel; introduced by Plant Delights Nursery and Juniper Level Botanic Garden in 2020. The sources do not say who named it.

HYBRIDIZER:

Cyrille Claudel

DESCRIPTION:

The green stalks are 40" tall and heavily spotted dark black-green toward the base, topped by a leaf canopy 43" wide.¹ The flowers appear before the foliage and are a shiny light purple with a yellow eye zone.¹

NOTES:

1. Sold as Amorphophallus x konbus 'Glow Light'; the x-name is a nursery label.¹

2. Plant Delights gives the cross as Amorphophallus konjac x albus, whereas Claudel's registered sibling cultivars have Amorphophallus albus as the female parent; the direction is therefore uncertain.¹,²

3. One of the named seedlings of Amorphophallus albus × Amorphophallus konjac.¹ Other named hybrids from the same two species: 'Mary Sizemore', 'Meister Eckardt', 'Green Genes', 'Alan's Legacy'. See every recorded cross of these two parents.

REFERENCES:

1. Plant Delights Nursery: Amorphophallus konbus Glow Light

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

Photos by Plant Delights Nursery