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Bulbs => Bulbs General => Topic started by: johnw on September 24, 2009, 01:49:15 AM

Title: Wild bulb
Post by: johnw on September 24, 2009, 01:49:15 AM: Take a look at this amazing Amorphophallus on the UBC website.

http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/potd/2009/09/amorphophallus_aphyllus.php (http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/potd/2009/09/amorphophallus_aphyllus.php)

johnw
Title: Re: Wild bulb
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 24, 2009, 06:13:50 AM: That certainly is wild!
thanks for the link, John.
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Wild bulb
Post by: Brian Ellis on September 24, 2009, 10:07:36 AM: It looks like some of the forms my pottery friends did for their degree, but no doubt the smell would give it away :o
Title: Re: Wild bulb
Post by: Paddy Tobin on September 24, 2009, 10:41:29 AM: An amazing plant, John. Good post. Paddy
Title: Re: Wild bulb
Post by: Anthony Darby on September 24, 2009, 11:38:47 AM: Looks rather like the pods in the first (and best ) Alien film. 8)
Title: Re: Wild bulb
Post by: Carlo on September 24, 2009, 01:41:35 PM: I grow several species of Amorphophallus...but don't have this one...it's a stunner!
Title: Re: Wild bulb
Post by: johnw on September 24, 2009, 02:36:41 PM: Quote from: Brian Ellis on September 24, 2009, 10:07:36 AM
It looks like some of the forms my pottery friends did for their degree, but no doubt the smell would give it away :o

Alot of crazing and still got a degree? ;D

This one seems to be growing in a rather dry site.

johnw
Title: Re: Wild bulb
Post by: Brian Ellis on September 24, 2009, 04:18:07 PM: Fashions of the seventies John ;D
Title: Re: Wild bulb
Post by: Lesley Cox on September 24, 2009, 09:49:51 PM: One could be forgiven for mistaking it for some kind of fruiting fungus. An amazing thing. Ain't plants wonderful? 8)