Amorphophallus yunnanensis India growing at a church in

growing at a church in Greensboro

Multiplying steadily

parviflorum) Cypripedium parviflorum var

brown-centered

so unlike our native jack-in-the-pulpits

Amorphophallus yunnanensis India growing at a church inThis fun, easy to grow species from Yunnan, China makes a small plant to 3' tall. The single leaf is held atop a 2 3' tall, smooth, dark green stalk, beautifully mottled with lighter green and flesh colored blotches. The flower of Amorphophallus yunnanensis emerges in early spring, albeit nothing like its better endowed cousins. The 3 6" tall spadix, looking like a pink alien head with a white neck, sits atop a nicely mottled 1 2' tall petiole