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Unusual plant Craig sent me (found the name of the Background plant)
« on: May 31, 2008, 12:38:45 PM »
One year it is a Tree the next it is a big flower. I forget what it's name is but it is cool!
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Re: Unusual plant Craig sent me
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2008, 12:42:07 PM »
Looks like some sort of voodoo lily to me....very neat plant indeed...
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Re: Unusual plant Craig sent me
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2008, 01:52:56 PM »
Totally cool.  Does it have any leaves??
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Re: Unusual plant Craig sent me
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2008, 02:35:15 PM »
Bet is smells wonderful!  {:-P;;  lol
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Re: Unusual plant Craig sent me
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2008, 02:40:43 PM »
Amorphophallus!  :o
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Re: Unusual plant Craig sent me
« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2008, 04:24:04 PM »
Keep your Love Phallus to yourself {:-P;;
Kidding really but loosely translated, that is what it means...

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Re: Unusual plant Craig sent me
« Reply #6 on: May 31, 2008, 06:00:54 PM »
IS that the plant that stinks to high heaven like rotting meat?  :o
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Re: Unusual plant Craig sent me
« Reply #7 on: May 31, 2008, 06:46:50 PM »
Thats right it is a voodoo lily. Last year it was a tree and dropped several tubers (they grow on the leaves) I found the box I put them in and they are all sprouting 
So far it does not Stink but I am assured it will at some point.

Cool looking plant though.

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Re: Unusual plant Craig sent me
« Reply #8 on: May 31, 2008, 06:49:00 PM »
That is one cool looking plant  O0

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Re: Unusual plant Craig sent me
« Reply #9 on: May 31, 2008, 08:22:07 PM »
I have four of those planted out front. They went dormant but are coming up as foliage. I was hoping I would get a bloom instead so I could add another complaint letter from the HOA to my collection.
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Re: Unusual plant Craig sent me
« Reply #10 on: June 01, 2008, 01:29:13 PM »
Found the old pictures of the tree phase of this voodoo lily Check this out, hard to imagine the lily can do this
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Re: Unusual plant Craig sent me
« Reply #11 on: June 02, 2008, 11:13:34 AM »
Quote from: El Jefe on May 31, 2008, 06:46:50 PM
Thats right it is a voodoo lily. Last year it was a tree and dropped several tubers (they grow on the leaves) I found the box I put them in and they are all sprouting 
So far it does not Stink but I am assured it will at some point.

Cool looking plant though.

Andy

I would guess that is A. bulbifer, and if it is, the fragrance, tho that is not the word I would use, is not all that bad.  A.  titanum and others are pollinated by carrion flies and need to smell like my garbage after I forgot to take the chicken bones out a couple of weeks ago (!!!), but not the one you pictured.  This one smells kind of like bad perfume; you would not ever wear it, but you don't get a gag reflex smelling it, either!!!  It is actually even marginally hardy up here in Zone 7-it is one of the more hardy species, so you ought to send some of those spare tubers up to us "Northerners"!

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Re: Unusual plant Craig sent me
« Reply #12 on: June 02, 2008, 12:52:32 PM »
The tubers werer not very large (size of a 50 cent piece) but sprouting none the less. Need to do something with them I suppose. Thanks for the info. Andy
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Re: Unusual plant Craig sent me
« Reply #13 on: June 02, 2008, 01:49:28 PM »
Cool!  Will it come back as a tree plant or a lily flower again next year?
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Re: Unusual plant Craig sent me
« Reply #14 on: June 02, 2008, 02:05:25 PM »
Andy,
That reminds me of the 'surprise lily'.  Comes up as a bunch of leaves that resembel a daylily.  The leaves die down and then the stalk of the flower emerges.  Very Interesting!

Is that some sort of Ginger plant in the window box?

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Re: Unusual plant Craig sent me
« Reply #15 on: June 02, 2008, 02:28:56 PM »
What a cool plant, the flower is beautiful! Hmmm, wonder how it would how it would do down south?
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Re: Unusual plant Craig sent me
« Reply #16 on: June 02, 2008, 09:11:04 PM »
Down south as in?? More south than Tallahassee Florida?  I am sure the further south the better.  As to the tree or the Lily I believe it alternates every other year. Kinda cool and it likes the Shade/partial shade. 
The Plant in the planter is a groundcover whose name escapes me. Joyce would know for sure.

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Re: Unusual plant Craig sent me (found the name of the Background plant)
« Reply #17 on: June 03, 2008, 12:45:00 PM »
For those who wanted to know.... The name of the plant in the background is Wandering Jew or Purple Heart

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/1160/
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Re: Unusual plant Craig sent me (found the name of the Background plant)
« Reply #18 on: June 03, 2008, 04:17:06 PM »
I found it interesting that the stalk had the same speckled pattern both years.

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