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Amorphophallus (from Ancient Greek amorphos, "without form, misshapen" + phallos, "penis", referring to the shape of the prominent spadix) is a large genus of some 200 tropical and subtropical tuberous herbaceous plants from the Arum family , native to Asia, Africa, Australia and various oceanic islands.
Amorphophallus paeoniifolius, the elephant foot yam [4] or whitespot giant arum, [5] [6] is a tropical plant native to Island Southeast Asia. It is cultivated for its edible tubers in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Madagascar, New Guinea, and the Pacific islands.
The titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) is a flowering plant in the family Araceae. It has a large unbranched inflorescence; a tall single leaf, branched like a tree; and a heavy tuber which enables the plant to produce the inflorescence. A. titanum is endemic to rainforests on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
Amorphophallus konjac, also known as konnyaku, [2] [a] and konjac, [b] is a plant species native to Yunnan in southwestern China, which has an edible corm. It is sometimes referred to as devil's tongue , [ 2 ] voodoo lily , snake palm , or elephant yam .
Amorphophallus commutatus, or dragon stalk yam (Marathi- shevale, mogari kanda; Hindi- jungli suran), [1] is a plant species in the family Araceae. Amorphophallus is a large genus of some 170 tropical and subtropical tuberous herbaceous plants, which includes the world's largest flower, titan arum .
One such plant is the Titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), which has the world's largest unbranched inflorescence. Rather than a single flower, the titan arum presents an inflorescence or compound flower composed of a spadix or stalk of small and anatomically reduced male and female flowers, surrounded by a spathe that resembles a single giant ...
It's sweaty, stinky time again at the Huntington Library, Art Gallery, and Botanic Gardens, where the season's first rare corpse flower bloom is expected by July 23.
Amorphophallus hewittii is geophytic aroid of family Araceae. Description. It is found primarily in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. It is the nearest relative of ...