AMORPHOPHALLUS LEWALLEI × AMORPHOPHALLUS RICHARDSIAE

PARENTAGE:

Amorphophallus lewallei × Amorphophallus richardsiae

HYBRIDIZER:

Cyrille Claudel

DESCRIPTION:

The cross joins a green-flowered species with a dark red-flowered one.¹ The first seedling to flower, LEWxRIC 11, was not the dull brown that Claudel had feared.¹

HYBRIDS:

(Amorphophallus lewallei × Amorphophallus richardsiae) × Amorphophallus antsingyensis

NOTES:

1. Named selections from this cross: 'F. H. Heine'.

2. Cyrille Claudel: Amorphophallus lewallei (ovule) × Amorphophallus richardsiae (pollen); reported 2012.²

3. Cyrille Claudel: Amorphophallus lewallei (ovule) × Amorphophallus richardsiae (pollen); one seedling named Amorphophallus 'F. H. Heine'.³

OVULE PARENT:

Amorphophallus lewallei

POLLEN PARENT:

Amorphophallus richardsiae

STORY:

STORY TITLE: Claudel's first cross, a green flower with a dark red one

This was Claudel's very first cross, made out of curiosity about what a mixture of pure green and dark red would look like.¹ He hoped the offspring would not turn out a dull brown, and years later the first plant flowered and the result was not.¹

REFERENCES:

1. Cyrille Claudel, Amorphophallus Hybrids Network: lewallei x richardsiae (archived June 2017)

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

3. International Aroid Society Aroid Cultivar Registry: Amorphophallus 'F. H. Heine'

Photos by Cyrille Claudel, from the Amorphophallus Hybrids Network website

Photos by Alan Galloway

Photographs submitted to the IAS Aroid Cultivar Registry by the originator