More Flowers! But... A Problem..

18 years ago

I picked up 4 bulbs a few years ago on e-bay. The seller had no idea what they were, but claimed the flowers stank, were polinated by fies and afterwards would produce seeds.

So of cource I put in a bid. Won 'em.

When they arrived they were a strange shape- Like a Hershey's kiss flattened. I figured they'd grown on the bottom of a pot causing the flat bottom of the bulb.. But as the years progressed I've found that's their shape.

They're finally blooming- I must have 50 bulbs by now as they off set all over the place much like Venosum with the 'babies' growing off the top of the 'mom'.

Here's the whole plant: (there's 2 adults in the pot)

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It looks like a dracunculus vulgaris, but the leaves are all wrong.

Here's those leaves on a smaller plant:

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As you can see this one will bloom as well.

Here's the flower:

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Anyone have an idea what this is? By the way, it does stink. "Dead animal" type stink.

In the same pot I have another bulb growing... Don't know what it is either. I only have a pic of the leaf:

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Any ideas on this one?

Thanks-

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Comments (5)

Krstofer
Original Author
18 years ago
As I've been thinking about this all day, I'm beginning to believe it is dracunculus vulgaris, which I have confused with amophophallus konjac, which I also grow. It's amazing how the flowers and the smell of each are almost the same..
jim_6b
18 years ago
Looks like a Dracunculus vulgaris to me. When mine are blooming I like to send visiting friends and family outside to smell the "pretty flower".
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arumgrande
18 years ago
Hi.
My problem is almost the same. A co-worker if mine told me when looking at the pictures of my blooming A. konjac: "Looks like the weed in my father's garden. He calls it Arum and it stinks. He tore them out years ago because of his wife, who does not like the bad smell, but he did not catch them all. Now the pest is starting again."
His father dug them out and gave them to me. The tubers are looking like flattened konjac's tubers, very smooth skin and brighter, roots sprouting from the top. The form remembered me to a white UFO- or elephant-foot-pumpkin ( -zucchini? ). I thougt they were "compressed" by heavy or pebbly soil under them. But the sprouting leaves look similar to your plants:

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I bought some Dracunculus vulgaris tubers from a german mail-order plant seller and they are looking totally different, very rough and not so flattened. Maybe the start of my next problem! ( Btw I ordered a A.paeoniifolius tuber there, which was announced to me as about 4,5 pound. It arrived in a big box, 10,5 pd. at 36 $, shipping included.
Nice,isn't it?! )

Would anyone like to help me with my ID-problem?
Thanks
herman
arumgrande
18 years ago
Another trial to post the photos:

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Looks better!
hermann
Krstofer
Original Author
18 years ago
Looks pretty much exactly like mine.. Leaves of S. Venosum with the flowers of A. Konjac.

What a trippy plant.