Re: Amorphophallus Hybrids - pollen / pollen viability

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Amorphophiles,

my Amorphophallus lewallei x eichleri (Kiehlmann) B flowered recently.
https://www.amorphophallus-network.org/hybrids/lewallei-x-eichleri/ - Hybrid B at the very end of that page.

I almost overlooked it - first picture...

The flower opened 3 days after picture 2; about noon there was only a faint umami-like scent; in the evening it the smell had changed to something like cowshed where silage ist fed.
I tired to pollinate it with pollen of my aff beccarii (asked for an id about 3 weeks ago; unfortunately no certain id till now...).

Furthermore I tried to collect pollen, but there was almost no pollen shed - see last picture

I know about 3 way Hybrids in Amophophallus; so there can be viable pollen from primary Hybrids
> questions:

Are there Amorphophallus species hybrids known that do not shed pollen?

If there is pollen shed by a primary Hybrid; what about the viability?

Looking forward to any comment

Bernhard. (http://www.amorphophallus-forum.de)

BTW, both are African species; lewallei (Burundi) and eichleri (Zaire); so to pollinate the hybrid with pollen from an Indonesian spec (beccarii from Sumatra) might not work - comments?

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