AMORPHOPHALLUS LEWALLEI × AMORPHOPHALLUS IMPRESSUS

Hybrid

PARENTAGE:

Amorphophallus lewallei × Amorphophallus impressus

HYBRIDIZER:

Marie Shepherd; Christian Treder; Alan Galloway

HYBRIDS:

(Amorphophallus lewallei × Amorphophallus impressus) × (Amorphophallus impressus × Amorphophallus taurostigma)

(Amorphophallus lewallei × Amorphophallus impressus) × Amorphophallus henryi

(Amorphophallus lewallei × Amorphophallus impressus) × Amorphophallus rostratus

(Amorphophallus taurostigma × Amorphophallus ankarana) × (Amorphophallus lewallei × Amorphophallus impressus)

Amorphophallus laoticus × (Amorphophallus lewallei × Amorphophallus impressus)

NOTES:

1. Marie Shepherd: Amorphophallus lewallei (ovule) × Amorphophallus impressus (pollen).¹

2. Christian Treder: Amorphophallus lewallei (ovule) × Amorphophallus impressus (pollen); reported 2012.²

3. Alan Galloway: Amorphophallus impressus (ovule) × Amorphophallus lewallei (pollen), fresh pollen; reported 2013.³

4. Reported in the Amorphophallus Facebook group: Juan Jimenez's plant from an Alan Galloway red-plate auction, which he pollinated with pollen of another hybrid, in May 2020;⁴ three in flower for Ian Wintle in November 2020;⁵ five plants of Humble Hen's 'Clone #10' in flower in June 2024.⁶

OVULE PARENT:

Amorphophallus lewallei

POLLEN PARENT:

Amorphophallus impressus

REFERENCES:

1. Facebook post by Marie Shepherd

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

3. Claudel, C., A. Galloway & R. Mangelsdorff. 2013. Hybridization of Amorphophallus – state of affairs. Aroideana 36: 114–122.

4. Juan Jimenez, post in the Amorphophallus Facebook group, 26 May 2020

5. Ian Wintle, post in the Amorphophallus Facebook group, 26 November 2020

6. Humble Hen Farm & Nursery, post in the Amorphophallus Facebook group, 19 June 2024

Photos by Christian Treder, from the Amorphophallus Hybrids Network website