Re: World's Largest Flower

Hello Kemberly,
    The Voodoo Lilly you are referring to is probably Sauromatum vernosum.
This one is often sold as a novelty ... bloom will come up from the bulb
before the leaves. Stinks to high heaven.. but lovely stems and foliage once
they come up to replace the short lived bloom.
    Leopard Palm is probably Dracunculus vulgaris.... another stinker.
Sometimes the names are used for either plant confusing things. Marge, you
should be able to grow either if I can here. My Drac was given to me and I
though it had died for 3 years. Came up out of nowhere this spring and
bloomed for me. No seeds..... phooh!
    I do not have either for sale... sorry. Waiting for mine to mature so
they can be divided.
    Gene Bush     Southern Indiana    Zone 6a     Munchkin Nursery
          around the woods - around the world
genebush@otherside.com     http://www.munchkinnursery.com
----- Original Message -----
From: <Mclainakag@aol.com>

Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: World's Largest Flower


> I do like those funky strange plants!!!!!  I don't think I have the one
you
> mentioned but until today I did think that I had one amorphophallus
rivieri
> but through another list I'm finding out that it might be something
slightly
> different.  A. rivieri is a much smaller variety.  I think that Gene might
> sell them at Munchkins but I am not sure.  All I know is the one I have
was
> told to me to be known commonly as the "leopard palm"...my mom-n-law, in
> Florida, has one that is very similiar to mine and she calls hers the
"voodoo
> plant".  Mine has never bloomed, her has bloomed a black bloom with a fowl
> odor.  People are probably wondering why someone would even think to put
this
> in their garden......because of the foliage--it is awsome!!
>
> I do wish I could have everything---just don't have the room.  I'm always
> thinking to myself - if only I was in zone 7 I could have so much
more...but
> if I did I couldn't have the number of tropicals that I do.
>
> Happy gardening
>
> Kemberly McLain
> Katy, Texas  Zone 9
>
> P.S.  My latest "strange" purchase was the tropical vine commonly known as
> the Jade Vine Strongylodon macrobotrys and mucana seeds---what will I ever
do
> with these guys. :o)
>
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