AMORPHOPHALLUS 'MAJDA'

PARENTAGE:

Amorphophallus pulchellus × Amorphophallus myosuroides

ORIGIN:

Cross made by Cyrille Claudel between Amorphophallus pulchellus (female) and Amorphophallus myosuroides (male); named by Claudel, and first flowered shortly before his Network page was archived in June 2017.

HYBRIDIZER:

Cyrille Claudel

DESCRIPTION:

Claudel found that it combines the good growing and flowering behavior of Amorphophallus myosuroides and a slight silvery mark on the leaves with the very long, attractively colored inflorescence of Amorphophallus pulchellus.¹ He also believes he detected a slight, sweet fragrance.¹

NOTES:

1. Claudel's Network page names Amorphophallus pulchellus as the female parent and Amorphophallus myosuroides as the male parent, whereas Galloway's index lists Amorphophallus myosuroides first, as does Claudel's 2014 table of crosses.¹,³,⁵

2. Claudel calls the Amorphophallus myosuroides parent the silver-leaf form, and Galloway's index calls it 'Silver center'.¹,³

3. Galloway's gallery shows it under accession AGA-2787-01, photographed from August 6th, 2017 to February 18th, 2019.⁴

4. One of the named seedlings of Amorphophallus myosuroides × Amorphophallus pulchellus.⁴ See every recorded cross of these two parents.

STORY:

STORY TITLE: Dedicated to a patient plant lover

Claudel dedicated this plant to a plant lover from NCBI whom he calls incredibly patient.¹

REFERENCES:

1. Cyrille Claudel, Amorphophallus Hybrids Network: pulchellus x myosuroides (archived June 2017)

2. Cyrille Claudel, Amorphophallus Hybrids Network: Cultivars (archived June 2017)

3. Alan Galloway Botanicals: Amorphophallus Hybrids

4. Alan Galloway Botanicals: Amorphophallus 'Majda'

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

Photos by Alan Galloway