Amorphophallus konjac

This is a cousin to "Perry from Gustavus". This is Barry.... as he also comes from a berry. Most of the smaller plants around his base are also voo doo's of one sort or other either more Amorphophallus konjac or Sauromatum venosum.    


Barry is over 6 feet tall.

Straight from the fine folks at Wikipedia and we quote:
"Corms can form many small cormlets called cormels, from the basal areas of the new growing corms, especially when the main growing point is damaged. They are used to propagate corm forming plants. Corms of a number of species of plants are replaced every year by the plant with growth of a new corm; this process starts after the shoot has developed fully expanded leaves. The new corm forms at the shoot base just above the old corm. As the new corm is growing, short stolons are produced that end with the newly growing small cormels. As the plants grow and flower, the old corm is used up and shrivels away. The new corm that replaces the old corm grows in size, especially after flowering is done.
The old corm produces the greatest number of cormels when it is close to the soil surface. The small cormels normally take one or two more years of growth before they are large enough to flower.

The gooey part on the bottom is the old corm.

The pieces at the bottom of the picture are apparently short stolons that are going to form more cormels at their ends. They break off when taking the big corm out of the ground. They're quite brittle.


All the pieces will happily make more "Barry-s"