Amorphophallus konjac, Penis Plant, from Leaf to Flower
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- čas přidán 16. 08. 2024
- Amorphophallus konjac, also called penis plant, devil's tongue, voodoo lily and snake palm.
I bought this amazing aroid about 5 years ago as a small bulb. It has been growing a container since then. I gave it as many sunshine as possible during the summer months. During winter I stored the bulb frost free without any soil.
This winter when I did a check I noticed a pink bud, the beginning of a flower!
During winter I grew it inside our house (without any soil) and when it started to flower I placed it outside because of the smell...! The flower is beautiful and really something special, especially when growing it in the Netherlands!
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What an awesome and beautiful flower!
Thanks!
@@TropicalGardening
you are welcome
You can use the corm to make something called konjac jelly and its edible too
Didn't knew it was edible, thanks!
I was born on 9th march. That's my birthday.
You have forgotten to mention the smell ;-)
Haha, it;s a mix of rotting meat and garbage, delicious! 🤣
Wow!
Good
Thanks!
I got some croms from a plant swap. I am in Canada. I left it out and to my surprise it started giving me some leaves and now today I see another leaf is popping out. What should I do to it. I would like to experience this whole cycle of it. What should I do with it foliage should I let it grow or cut and put it away for the winter, please advise. We are approaching winter soon. Luckily enjoying extended summer and warm weather.
I wish I can share the pictures with you. It’s leaves are very pretty.
Please guide me.
Give the leaf as much sun as possible. When it dies back, dig up the bulb and store it above zero during winter. In february you see a new growing point. After the frost you can plant it out again, give much water, fertilizer and very important: sun!
The subtitle might better be "from flower to leaf", because a mature Konjac plant starts its' annual cycle by flowering, then sending up a leaf.
Konjac is widely grown as a 'root' vegetable in Southeast and warm temperate East Asia. In Japan, it is known as Konyakku, and is often sold as processed starch used as a food thickener much like corn starch, but with fewer calories. It is also made into noodles, and is a key ingredient in the fruit gel cups and fruit eating pet food gel cups now widely sold. The above ground vegetative part of the plant is a very attractive snowflake shaped leaf with a stout, strongly marbled leafstalk. The leaf shown here is in early senescence; an earlier season leaf is far more attractive.
Konjac is an aroid, relative of Philodendron, Pothos (Scindapsus), Calla 'Lily', Caladium, Alocasia, and Taro, and like some aroids it is adapted for pollination by carrion feeding and breeding flies. It produces an intense putrid odor during most of its' flowering cycle, and both the spathe and the spadix simulate a decaying mammal in appearance. The plant generates metabolic heat in the inflorescence during part of its' flowing cycle. The related 'Voodoo Lily' (Sauromatum venosum) also pollinated by carrion flies, does the same.
Like many aroids Konjac is susceptible to infection with a number of viruses. Typical symptoms of infection include stunting, loss of vigor, and yellow mottling in the foliage.
Here in the US, Konjac is reliably winter hardy if grown against a South or West facing house foundation where winter low temperatures dip below -6.6666 °C (20°F).
Thanks! It depends on how you look at it. The plant got its flower from the energy of the leaf. There is something to be said for both 😉
@@TropicalGardening Yes, you're correct from a physiological perspective. Konjac corms flower after they accumulate enough stored food that was photosynthesized by their leaf during the previous year, then undergo the dormancy that precedes flowering. I was putting the cart before the horse!
Given plenty of sun and heavy feeding (low nitrogen), virus free corms of Konjac can grow to weights over 9 kilograms from small offset corms within a single summer.
@@motherlandbot6837 Thanks! I'll try to get such a massive bulb! 😉👍
Excellent! Do you know where you can get amorphophallus konjac? Thx
Thanks! I got mine from Aroid.nl, I don't know their shipping terms.
Smells bad or good?
To my nose, the inforescence smells very strongly of rotten meat, but with a bit more of an ammonia undertone, and less 'depth'. The odor does not develop immediately after the spathe (the sheath that encloses the 'phallic' spadix and the actual male and female flowers at the base of the spadix) opens, but persists through most of the flowering cycle. Otherwise, it's an attractive and easy plant to grow. It likes filtered to full sun and heavy feeding and regular watering when in leaf. Like its' 'Voodoo Lily' cousin, a mature corm will flower after dormancy without planting in response to rising temperatures and photoperiod. Virus infections can be a problem.
The foliage is very attractive before senescence (the video shows a leaf that is dying back as the plant approaches dormancy).
Konjac is a smaller cousin of the famous Titan Arum or Giant Corpse Flower (Amorphophallus titanum)., which is also pollinated by carrion feeding/breeding flies.
I've eaten the corms several times when living in Japan and even when flying on Japan Airlines. These are quite flavorless by themselves but absorb any flavors and aromas from sauces, etc. that they are cooked with. Their texture is like that of a small, less dense potato. Konjac has a much lower calorie count relative to weight than potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, taro, etc. It is also made into bland low calorie noodles and food starch. It's illegal to sell them as food or eat them in Australia.
Very bad, but flies love it 😉
@@TropicalGardening does it kill the flies? Or is it grown just because it looks special?
@@SteveSolaka The flies are the Pollinators
I got some croms from a plant swap. I am in Canada. I left it out and to my surprise it started giving me some leaves and now today I see another leaf is popping out. What should I do to it. I would like to experience this whole cycle of it. What should I do with it foliage should I let it grow or cut and put it away for the winter, please advise. We are approaching winter soon. Luckily enjoying extended summer and warm weather.
I wish I can share the pictures with you. It’s leaves are very pretty.
Please guide me.